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THE PRESCRIBER: 



A DICTIONARY 



OF THK 



NEW THERAPEUTICS. 



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JOHN H. CLARKE, M. D., F. R. G. S., 

EXT. MEM. ROYAL MEDICAL SOCIETY EDIN., 
FELLOW BRITISH HOMOEOPATHIC SOCIETY. 
CONSULTING PHYSICIAN TO THE LONDON HOMCEOPATHIC HOS- 
PITAL, AND LECTURER ON MATERIA MEDICA TO 
THE L. H. H. MEDICAL SCHOOL. 

^^ Dictionary of Domestic Medicine,'''' '''Cold Catching, etc.,'''' "' Indi- 
gestion^'''' ''' Rheumatism and Sciatica,'''' '' Cholera, Diarrhoea 
and Dysentery,'''' ''Diseases of the Heart and Arteries,'''' 
'' Homceopathy: All About It,'" Editor of " The Ho- 
moeopathic World, ""formerly Co-Editor of ' ' The 
British Journal of Homoeopathy,'''' etc. 



AMERICAN EDITION: 

REVISED AND ENLARGED BY THE AUTHOR FROM THE 

FOURTH ENGLISH EDITION. 



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COPYRIGHTED, 1897, 

BY 
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PREFACE. 



Through the courtesy of Meksrs. Keene & Ashwell, 
my English publishers, I have been enabled to comply 
with the request of Messrs. Boericke & Tafel to prepare 
an edition of The Prescriber for publication in the 
United States. The present volume is the outcome of 
my revision of the fourth English edition which appeared 
in 1893. Without in any way altering the scope of the 
work, I have added to it such matter as later experience 
and later reading have suggested, and I think it will be 
found to be well up to date and to include references to 
all the newer remedies that have stood the test of clinical 
experience. 

I must ask my readers to be kind enough to read with 
care those portions of my Preface to the Third Edition^ 
which I shall quote below, in order that they may under- 
stand clearly my aim. When I commenced to practice 
Homoeopathy, now more than twenty years ago, there 
was no pocket companion of the kind; and the text 
books on homoeopathic therapeutics gave little help in 
matter of attenuation, dose and how often to repeat — the 
very points most wanted by a novice One of my objects 
in writing this book was to supply these details. 

But the last thing I desire is to be dogmatic — except in 
in so far as dogmatism can help a beginner. And as 
many homoeopathists, who are anything but beginners, 
have been good enough to say they have found The 
PreSCRIBER useful, I wish it to be understood that my 
directions as to dose, etc., are not intended to supersede 
the teachings of individual experience. 

I may add that in this country many practitioners have 



vi PREFACE. 

found it useful to possess interleaved copies of The Pre- 
SCRIBER for writing down bits of experience and glean- 
ings from the journals which find a ready-made index 
under the various headings of the book, and are always 
easily found afterguards. 

John H. Ci^arke. 
JO Claries Street, Piccadilly^ Londoji W., England. 
May, i8gj. 



FROM THE PREFACE TO THE 
THIRD EDITION. 



This work is designed primarily for the beginner in 
homoeopathic practice, as a handy book of reference, to 
enable him to find speedily the most suitable remedy for 
a given case, with hints as to the best attenuation to em- 
ploy, and how frequently to repeat. 

The second edition of The Prescriber, comprising 
double the number of copies issued in the first, has 
naturally taken a longer time to exhaust. This has 
afforded the author an opportunity of making many 
annotations in his interleaved copies; and the most im- 
portant of these have been embodied in the present edi- 
tion. Several entirely new headings have been added, 
and in deference to suggestions an attempt has been 
made to classify the large chapters, ''Cough'' and 
"Headache." The difficulty in satisfactorily classifying 
these, or any other disorders which have many varieties, 
lies in the fact that the divisions are necessarily more or 
less artificial and partial. For instance, "spasmodic' 
may be taken to describe one kind of cough; "dry" 
may describe another class; "hacking" another, and so 
on; but many medicines will cause coughs having all 
these characteristics, and, consequently, it will be of 
little use to classify the same medicine under each of the 
heads, whilst it would be misleading to place it only 
under one. To meet this difficulty the leading features 
in the symptoms of the drugs mentioned in these two 
chapters have been italicized, so that they will more 
readily catch the eye : and under subsidiary headings 
peculiar conditions of the diseases have been added, with 



viii PREFACE— THIRD EDITION. 

their corresponding drugs, so that they may be more 
easily found. 

In order to enable those who use the book to avoid the 
practice of alternating medicines, greater precision in 
differentiating their indications has been aimed at. 
Where formerly two remedies were advised to be given 
in alternation, the particular indications when to give 
the one and when the other are now supplied. The in- 
dications for the remedies generally will be found to be 
more symptomatic and less pathological than formerly. 
Medicines have no regard to the names of diseases, either 
pathological or nosological, but only to the symptoms of 
each individual patient. A reportorial work, whose basis 
of arrangement is clinical or nosological, has, in strict 
logic, no raison d'Hre in Homoeopathy; but practically 
it has a by no means unimportant place. Names of dis- 
eases correspond to well-defined groups of symptoms, 
which find analogous groups in the symptom-record of 
the various medicines. A clinical repertory like The 
PrKSCRIBER shows at a glance what these medicines are, 
and how they are to be distinguished from each other. 
If the most similar remedy is not found under any of the 
medicines named, recourse must be had to the Materia 
Medica itself and the Repertories of its Symptomatology. 
The PrESCRIBER is not intended to be a substitute for a 
knowledge of the Materia Medica^ but only as a help to 
the successful use of it. 

For the benefit of non-professional readers who may 
find the book of service when professional advice is not 
available, the Glossary compiled by the late Mr. Henri 
HussoN for the second edition has been retained. 

John H. Ci^arke. 

London^ i8Sg. 



INTRODUCTION. 



PLAN OF THB WORK. 

ThK plan of the work is simple. The names of the 
diseases are given in alphabetical order; and where a 
disease has more names than one, each name is given 
with a reference to the one under which the treatment is 
prescribed. This will generally be found to be the name 
by which it is most commonly known. Under each head- 
ing the names of the medicine or medicines most useful 
in the particular disease are given. When more medi- 
cines than one are named, there will be found prefixed to 
each the symptoms which would lead the prescriber to 
choose that in preference to the rest. Where no such 
differentiating symptoms can be given, the medicines are 
named in the order of their general applicability, and 
numbered; it is intended that the prescriber shall use 
them in that order, if there are no other symptoms in the 
case pointing to one more than the other. 

Where a number of symptoms are given as belonging 
to one medicine, these vdll be found separated either by 
commas or semicolons. All those only separated by 
commas belong to a single group, and these must all be 
present in order to indicate the medicine. For example: 
under Sciatica will be found, *' Pains made worse by 
sitting, relieved somewhat by walking, entirely by l)dng 
down. Am, mur.: ' ' this means that Ammonium muriati- 
cum, is indicated when the pain of sciatica is marked by 
all these characters. If in any case the pain were noted 
as being " relieved somewhat by walking," without the 
other two, the medicine would probably not be appro- 



2 INTRODUCTION. 

priate. Again, under the same heading we have: *' Purely 
neuralgic; accompanying paralysis; in old and debilitated 
subjects, Ars.:'' this means that Arsenic is likely to 
benefit all cases that are of a purely neuralgic kind, as 
opposed to inflammatory or rheumatic; also sciatica in 
patients suffering from paralysis; also sciatica in old and 
debilitated patients. Bach characteristic is sufficient in 
itself to indicate the medicine, and this the semicolons 
are intended to show; should two of the characteristics, 
or all three, be found in the same patient, the medicine 
would be still more strongly indicated. But it must be 
understood that all the medicines given under any head- 
ing have a distinct specific relation to the part or the 
affection under consideration; and whilst I have sought 
to give the distinguishing traits of each drug, that the 
best medicine may be chosen first, still all the medicines 
are more or less homoeopathic, and if one fails, the one 
which seems next in appropriateness should be tried. But 
it must always be borne in mind that the whole of the 
symptoms of any patient must be taken into considera- 
tion, and not the most urgent only. The drug which 
corresponds best to the totality of a patient's symptoms 
will be the most certain to cure. 

Under certain headings, as Tongue, Taste, Smell, &c., 
I have given some characteristic conditions, which, how- 
ever, do not in themselves constitute disease. They 
occur as symptoms in various diseases, and as the result 
of the action of certain drugs, and are often useful in de- 
termining the choice of a medicine, if that medicine is 
in relation to the case as a whole. For example, if a 
prescriber is in doubt which of two medicines to give in 
-a case of dyspepsia, a reference to the heading Tonglie 
may show which of these medicines is capable of pro- 
ducing a condition of tongue most like that present and 
determine the choice. 



INTRODUCTION. 3 

RULES FOR PRACTICE. 

The beginner in homoeopathic practice should, in the 
first instance, make himself absolute master of some 
dozen of the most widely useful remedies, with all their 
characteristics and peculiarities; of the conditions under 
which their symptoms appear and cease, and of their 
special times of occurrence, if they have any. The fol- 
lowing is a list I recommend, the medicines being named 
in the order of their importance: — Sulphur, lycopodium, 
calcarea, arsenicum, aconitum, nux vomica, pulsatilla, 
silica, hepar, china, thuja, belladonna, bryonia. An accu- 
rate knowledge of the symptomatology of these drugs 
will enable the practitioner to deal successfully with the 
majority of the cases he meets. But it will also do more 
than this for him; it will give him a solid basis on which 
to build up a knowledge of the rest of the materia 
medica. 

BOOKS. 

No practitioner of homoeopathy should be without a 
copy of Hahnemann's great works. The Organon 0/ 
Medicine and the treatise on Chronic Diseases. He will 
learn from these works more about the essential nature 
of disease, and how to deal with it successfully, than all 
the modern medical works can teach him. His Materia 
Medica Pura^ translated by Dudgeon, and published by 
. the Hahnemann Publishing Society, should also be in 
the possession of every one. The monumental work of 
Dr. Timothy Ai,i,en, of New York, the Encyclopcedia 
of Pure Materia Medica^ comprises all the symptoms of 
the drugs given in Hahnemann's works, and a vast 
number of others observed since his time. It is beyond 
comparison the most important work on materia medica 
ever published. A good and convenient Repertory is 
still a desideratum. The Repertory part of Curie's Jahr 



4 INTRODUCTION. 

is perhaps the best. Second-hand copies are to be ob- 
tained, as also of the Symptonien Codex (materia medica) 
of JAHR. BcEnninghauskn's Pocket-Bookis invaluable. 
The Cypher Repertory of the Hahnemannian Publishing 
Society is excellent as far as it goes, but it is still far from 
being complete. Lippe's Repertory of Characteristics is 
very useful, as is also Dr. Winterburn's Pocket Repertory. 
The Index to Dr. Allen's Encyclopcedia is indispensable 
to the users of that work. Hering's Analytical Thera 
peutics of the symptoms of the Mind, and his Guiding 
Symptoms with its Repertory^ are invaluable Farring- 
Ton's Clinical Materia Medica and Carroi. Dunham's 
Lectures should be in the possession of all. 

CASE TAKING. 

The first step towards making a good prescription is a 
well-taken case. The homceopathist takes his case with 
much more care than do others. The directions given by 
Hahnemann himself in the Organon should be carefully 
studied, and the spirit of them followed. The patient 
should be allowed to tell his own story, stating just what 
\i.^ feels ^ and the particular symptoms he is most anxious 
to be rid of. The practitioner should then ascertain the 
condition under which the symptoms occur, the times of 
day at which they are worst, and any concomitant symp- 
toms that may accompany them. If it is not then quite 
obvious what remedy he ought to prescribe, he will be 
prepared to consult his books of reference, knowing 
clearly what symptoms he wishes to find. 

In my own practice I have found of great service in 
taking cases detached blank forms such as I here append. 
The headings of the Hahnemannian Schema are spaced 
out, and under each I put the symptoms as told me by 
the patient, or as ascertained in examination. 



INTRODUCTION. 5 

SPECIMEN OF FORM FOR CASE TAKING. 



Name, &c. 



Medicines. 



Complaint and History. 



Generalities. 



Mind. 



Head- 



6 INTRODUCTIONo 

Eyes. 

Ears. 

Nose.. 

Face, 



Mouth 



Throat. 



Appetite, Hating. 



INTRODUCTION, 

Stomach. 



Abdomen, 



Bowels. 



Kidney's, Urine 



Generative. 



Respiratory. 



Chest. 



INTRODUCTION. 



Heart. 



Neck, Back. 



Extremities. 



Skin. 



Fever. 



Sleep. 



Temperature. 



Time. 



Motion, Touch, etc. 



INTRODUCTION. 9 

For the subsequent progress of the case I have blank 
papers of the same size. I have them of the thinnest 
note, so that I can carry a number in a small pocket case, 
and they take up very little room. Any stationer or 
printer will supply them, and have them printed as de- 
sired. 

RUIvBS FOR PRESCRIBING. 

Having found the medicine which corresponds to the 
case, there remain the questions of attenuations, dose, and 
frequency of repetition. In these matters dogmatism is 
out of place, and every man's experience is his best guide. 
But some guidance is needed before experience is avail- 
able, and this I have tried to give. In the matter of at- 
tenuation, my own experience leads me to believe that 
all attenuations, from the mother-tincture upwards, are 
curative, provided the choice of the medicine is correct. 
When the similarity is very close between drug symptoms 
and patient's symptoms, the attenuation cannot be too 
high to cure, and the higher it is the more permanent the 
cure is likely to be. But the question of attenuation is 
secondary to that of the selection of the drug. 

It is taken for granted that the reader possesses at 
least an elementary acquaintance with homoeopathic 
pharmacy. It will be sufficient to state here that the 
signs <i> and 6 following the name of a medicine stand for 
the strongest preparation of the drug, and the numbers 
I, 2, 3, &c., or IX, 2x, 3x, &c., for the different attenua- 
tions. The figures i, 2, 3, &c., refer to the centesimal 
attenuations; the proportion being in " i," one part of 
the strongest preparation of the substance to 99 of the 
attenuating medium, and in "2," one part of " i " to 99 
parts of the attenuating medium, and so on. The figures 
IX, 2x, &c., refer to the decimal scale of attenuation; 
*' IX '* meaning one part of the strongest preparation to 
9 parts of the attenuating medium, 2x one part of ix to 
9 parts of the attenuating medium, and so on. 

2 



lo INTRODUCTION. 

1. The Aiteiiuation . — After the name of each medicine 
there will be found the number of the attenuation recom- 
mended. When several attenuations are believed to be 
equally efficacious, the numbers of the lowest and the 
highest are given, and a bar is placed between them. 
For example, '^ Aeon, i — 3" would mean Aeon, i, 3X, 
2, or 3, and the prescriber may select any one of these 
as he thinks fit. Wheii the choice lies between two only, 
the two numbers are joined by an " or " : as *' Cham, i 
or 6." When no sign or figure follows the name of a 
medicine the pure substance is meant: e.g.^ ^^ Kali i. gr. 
ii." means two grains of the iodide of potassium itself. 

2. The Dose — In all cases where no mention of dose is 
made, one drop of the tincture, or one pilule or tablet is 
intended. The choice between tinctures and pilules is 
one of convenience chiefly. When tinctures are pre- 
ferred, one drop to a teaspoonful or a dessert-spoonful of 
water is the propor dose, or, if given in powder, one 
drop to a sufficient quantity of sugar of milk. Distilled 
water, or water that has been boiled, is preferable to tap- 
water. When triturations are intended, this is always 
indicated by the number of grains for a dose following 
the number of the attenuation. For example, ^^ Silie. 3, 
gr. iii " means three grains of the third trituration of 
Silica. Triturations may be given dry on the tongue, or 
suspended in water, as preferred by the patient. 

3. The Repetition of the Dose. — For the sake of sim- 
plicity and uniformity, the times of the repetition of the 
dose are given in terms of hours and minutes. After the 
name of a medicine with its attenuation, "ih." means 
that the medicine is to be given every hour; " 2h.'' every 
two hours; "6h." every six hours, or four times a day; 
**8h." every eight hours, or three times a day; '* lom.'* 
every ten minutes. 

In acute cases Hahnemann directs that the medicine 
should be given at short intervals, in chronic cases at 
longer. The rule laid down w^as to give one dose in a 



INTRODUCTION. ii 

chronic case, and wait until its effects were exhausted. 
This may be done in some cases; in others it is well to 
repeat the dose at short intervals until a decided effect is 
produced, and then wait until the action is exhausted 
before again repeating it. If the same symptoms return 
the same remedy must be repeated; if they are changed, 
a different remedy must be sought. 

4. The Time of Day. — The best time for giving medi- 
cine (when the repetition of the dose is not too frequent 
to allow of choice) is from an hour to half an hour 
before food. In ordering a medicine every six hours 
(four times a day) the first dose may be given on rising, 
the second an hour before lunch, the third an hour before 
dinner, and the last at bedtime. An exception must be 
made in the case of the lower attenuations of arsenic and 
iron. These should be given immediately after food. 

5. Alternation. — This is a practice which is to be 
guarded against. If two medicines seem almost equally 
indicated, it is best to decide upon one of them, and give 
that. When the prescriber has seen whether it answers 
his expectations or not, he will be able to decide on the 
propriety of giving the other. To give both at the same 
time destroys the value of the observation, and tends to 
weaken the prescriber' s powers of diagnosing the remedy. 

6. Sleep. — Except in dangerous acute cases patients 
should not be awakened from sleep to receive their medi- 
cine. When it is necessary to give the dose during 
sleep, it is often possible to do it without arousing the 
patient. 

EXAMPLES OF PRESCRIPTIONS. 

I. Aeon. 3, 4h. This may be ordered from a homoeo- 
pathic chemist in this way : — 

Take of Tincture of Aconite, 3, two drachms. One 
drop in a dessert-spoonful of water every four hours. 
(The directions *' one drop in a dessert-spoonful of water" 



12 INTRODUCTION. 

merely indicates the proportion of the tincture to the 
water, and the amount for each dose. It is often more 
convenient to mix enough for twenty-four hours all at 
once. In this case six drops would be mixed in six 
dessert-spoonfuls of water, and a dessert-spoonful of this 
given every four hours.) 

If it is proposed to give the dose in powder form it 
may be ordered in this way: Take of Tincture of Aconite 
one drop, of Sugar of Milk a sufficient quantity. Make 
a powder; send of such twenty-four (or whatever num- 
ber is desired). One powder on the tongue every four 
hours. 

If pilules (or tablets) are intended to be given, the 
prescription would be as follows: — 

Take of pilules (or tablets) of Aconite 3, two drachms. 

One pilule (or tablet) to be taken every four hours. 

2. Silic. 3x, gr. ii., 6h. 

This may be expanded as follows: — 

Take of trituration of Silica 3X two grains; make a 
powder; send of such twenty-four. One powder to be 
taken four times a day. Or — 

Take of trituration of Silica 3X two drachms, or a 
quarter of an ounce. As much as would lie on a sixpenny- 
piece to be taken four times a day. (Small horn scoops 
are sold by the chemists made to hold one, two, or three 
grains each. In prescribing triturations it is often con- 
venient to order one of these, and direct, " a scoopful to 
be taken," &c.). 

Bacill. 200, gl. iv. once a week. 

This may be ordered as follows: — 

Take of Bacillinuin 200 four globules; of Sugar of Milk 
two grains. Make a powder. Send as many as required. 
One to be taken dry on the tongue once a week. Plain 
powders of Sach. Lact. may be ordered in the interval if 
the patient cannot be made to understand the prolonged 



INTRODUCTIOT^. 13 

action of single doses. Or if other medicines are called 
for by special symptoms, they may be given between the 
doses without interfering with the Qonstitutional action 
of the remedy. 



14 INTRODUCTION. 



ABBREVIATIONS AND SIGNS. 

Abbreviations. Names of Medicines. 

Abies n Abies nigra. 

Ac. acet Acidum aceticum glaciale. 

Ac. benz . Acidum benzoicum. 

Ac. borac Aciduni boracicum. 

Ac. carb Aciduni carbolicum. 

Ac. fluor Aciduni fluoricum. 

Ac. hydrocy . Aciduni hydrocyanicum. 

Ac. mur. Acidum inuriaticum, 

Ac. nit Acidum nitricum. 

Ac. nit. mur Acidum nitro-muriaiicum. 

Ac. oxal . Acidum oxalicum. 

Ac. phos Acidum phosphoricum. 

Ac. pier. Acidum picricuni. 

Ac. sul Acidum sulphuricum. 

Ac. sulphuros Acidum sulphurosuni. 

Aco. or Aeon Aconitum napellus. 

Act rac Aetsea racemosa. 

Adrenalin Extract of Super-renal Cap- 
sules. 

^sc. hip ^sculus hippocastanum. 

^thus ^thusa cynapium. 

Agar. Agaricus muscarius 

Agn. cast Agnus castus. 

Ail Ailanthus. 

All. c Allium cepa. 

All. sat Allium sativum. 

Aloe Aloe. 

Alumen Alumen. 

Alumina . . .... Alumina. 

Amb Ambra. 



INTRODUCTION. 15 

Abbreviations, Names of Medicines. 

Amm. bro. ....... Ammonium bromidmn. 

Amm. c Ammonium carbonicum. 

Amm. mur Ammonium muriaticum. 

Amyl nit Amyl nitrosum. 

Anac. . Anacardium. 

Angust Angustura vera. 

Anthrac Anthracinum. 

Ant. c Antimonium crudum. 

Ant. tar Antimonium tartaricum. 

Apis Apis. 

Apocy . . Apocynum cannabinum. 

Apom. . . Apomorphia. 

Aral, rac Aralia racemosa. 

Arg. m Argentum metallicum. 

Arg. n Argentum nitricum. 

Arn Arnica. 

Ars Arsenicum album. 

Ars. i. . Arsenicum iodatum. 

Ars sul. rub Arsenicum sulphuricum rub- 
rum. 

Artem Artemisia. 

Arum t. . Arum triphyllum. 

Asa. . Asafcetida. 

Ascl Asclepias tuberosa. 

Astacus Astacus fiuviatilis. 

Ast. r Asterias rubens. 

Atr Atropinum. 

Atrop. s Atropinum sulphuricum. 

Aur Aurum. 

Aur. iod Aurum iodidum. 

Aur. mur. ....... Aurum muriaticum. 

Aur. n. m Aurum et natrum muriati- 
cum. 

Aviaire Nosode of fowl-phthisis. 

Bacill Bacillinum. 



i6 INTRODUCTION. 

Abbreviations. Names of Medicines. 

Badig Badiaga. 

Balsam of Peru Balsamum Peruvianum 

Bap ..... Baptisia. 

Baryt. c Baryta carbonica. 

Barj't. iod Baryti iodata. 

Bell Belladonna. 

Bellis Bellis perennis. 

Benzoin Benzoin (Friars' balsam). 

Berb Berberis. 

Bism Bismuthum. 

Blatt Blatta orientalis. 

Bor Borax. 

Bov Bovista. 

Brom Bromium. 

Bry Bryonia alba. 

Buf o Bufo rana. 

Bufo sat Bufo sat3'riensis. 

Cact Cactus grandiflorus. 

Cadm. s Cadmium sulphuratum. 

Calad Caladium. 

Calc. ac Calcarea acetica. 

Calc. ars Calcarea arsenica. 

Calc. c Calcarea carbonica. 

Calc. caus Calcarea caustica. 

Calc. chlor. . Calcarea chlorata. 

Calc. fluor Calcarea fluorata. 

Calc. iod Calcarea iodata. 

Calc. m Calcarea muriatica. 

Calc. phos Calcarea phosphorica. 

Calc. pic Calcarea picrata. 

Calend Calendula. 

Camph. Camphora. 

Cann. Ind Cannabis Indica. 

Cann. sat Cannabis sativa. 

Canth. .... Cantharis. 



INTRODUCTION. 17 

Abbreviations. Names of Medicines. 

Caps Capsicum. 

Carb. a Carbo animalis. 

Carb. V Carbo vegetabilis. 

Carb sul Carboneum sulphuratum. 

Carl Carlsbad. 

Carron oil Carron oil. 

Caul Caulophyllum. 

Caust Causticum. 

Ceaii. . - Ceanothus. 

Cedr. Cedron. 

Cham Cbamomilla. 

Chel Chelidonium majus. 

Chim Chimaphila umbellata. 

China Cinchona officinalis. 

Chin. ars. . Chininum arsenicosum. 

Chin, sul Chininum sulphuricum 

(Quinse sulphas). 
Cloral ......... Chloralum hydratum. 

Cic Cicuta. 

Cimicif. r Cimicifuga racemosa {see 

Act. rac). 

Cina Cina. 

Cinchona rub Cinchona rubra. 

Cinnab Cinnabaris. 

Cistus ... Cistus Canadensis. 

Clern Clematis erecta. 

Coco . Cocculus Indicus. 

Coc. cact Coccus cacti. 

Cod Codeia. 

Coflf. Coif ea cruda. 

Colch Colchicum. 

Collin Collinsonia. 

Coloc Colocynthis. 

Como Comocladia. 

Con Conium. 

Condur Condurango. 



i8 INTRODUCTION. 

Abbreviations, Names of Medicines, 

Cop Copaiba. 

Coral, r Corallium rubrum. 

Croc Crocus sativus. 

Crotal.h Crotalus horridus. 

Crot. t Croton tiglium. 

Cupr Cuprum metallicum. 

Cupr. acet Cuprum aceticum. 

Cupr. ars Cuprum arsenicosum. 

Cycl Cyclamen. 

Dign Digitalinum. 

Dig Digitalis. 

Diosc Dioscorea villosa. 

Dros Drosera rotundifolia. 

Dulc Solanum dulcamara. 

Ecchin Ecchinacea angustifolia. 

Elap Elaps corallinus. 

Eucal Eucalyptus. 

Eup. perf Eupatorium perfoliatum. 

Eup. purp Eupatorium purpureum. 

Euphor. cor. Euphorbium coralliuum. 

Euph Euphrasia. 

Ferr Ferrum. 

Ferr. ac Ferrum aceticum. 

Ferr. mur Ferrum muriaticum. 

Ferr. iod Ferrum iodatum. 

Ferr. phos Ferrum phosphoricum. 

Ferr. pier Ferrum picricum. 

Ferr. redact Ferrum redactum. 

Ferr. pyrophos Ferrum pyrophosphoricum. 

Fil. mas Filix mas. 

Frag. vesCo . Fragaria vesca. 

Frax. Am Fraxinus Americanus. 

Gal. ap Galium aperinum. 

Gamb , . . Gambogia. 



INTRODUCTION. 19 

Abbyeviatio7is. Names of Medichies, 

Gels Gelsemium. 

Glon Glonoinum. 

Gnaph .- Gnaplialium. 

Granat Punica Granatum. 

Graph Graphites. 

Grind GrindeHa squarrosa. 

Guaco Guaco. 

Guaiac Guaiacum. 

Gymno Gymnocladus. 

Ham Hatnamehs. 

Heel. 1 Heclae lava. 

Hell, n Helleborus niger. 

Helon. d Helonius dioica. 

Hep Hepar sulphuris. 

Hydras Hydrastis. 

Hydrastia mur Hydrastia muriatica. 

Hydrastinin mur. . . . Hydrastinin muriaticum. 

Hydro Hydrocotyle. 

Hyo Hyoscyamus niger. 

Hyper Hypericum. 

Iberis Iberis. 

Ign Ignatia. 

Ind. Indigo. 

lod. lodum. 

Ipec. .' Ipecacuanha. 

Iris m > . Iris minor. 

Iris V Iris versicolor. 

Jab Jaborandi. 

Jatr Jatropha curcas. 

Jug. c Juglans cinerea. 

Jug. r Juglans regia. 

Kali bich Kali bichromicum. 



20 INTRODUCTION. 

Abbreviations, Names of Medicines, 

Kali brom Kali bromatum. 

Kali c Kali carbonicum. 

Kali clilor Kali chloricum. 

Kali cy Kali cyanatum. 

Kali i. Kali iodatum. 

Kali 111 Kali muriaticuin. 

Kali n Kali nitricum or Nitrum. 

Kalm Kalmia. 

Kreas Kreasotum. 

Lac. can Lac. caninum. 

Lach. . . .' Lachesis. 

Lact. V Lactuca virosa. 

Lathyriis s . Lathyrus sativus. 

La\-ender oil Oil of lavender. 

Led Ledum palustre. 

Lept Leptandra. 

Liq. sod. chlor Liquor sodee chlorinatse (na- 

trum hyperchlorinatum). 

Lil. t Lilium tigrinum. 

Lith. c . Lithium carbonicum. 

Lobel Lobelia inflata. 

Luet Lueticum (Syphilinum). 

Lye ■ . Lycopodium clavatum. 

Lyss Lyssin (Hydrophobinum). 

Macrotin Macrotinum. 

Magnes aus Magnes australis ( South Pole 

of Magnet). 

Mag. c Magnesia carbonica. 

Mag. m Magnesia muriatica. 

Mag. phos Magnesia phosphorica. 

Mang Manganum. 

Menth. pip Mentha piperita. 

Merc, bin Mercurius biniodatus. 

Merc, c Mercurius corrosivus, 



INTRODUCTION. 21 

Abbreviatio7is . Names 0/ Medicines. 

Merc, cy Mercurius cyanatus. 

Merc d . Mercurius dulcis. 

Merc. i. fl Mercurius iodatus iiavus. 

Merc, s Mercurius solubilis. 

Merc. sul. r Mercurius sulphuratus ruber 

{see Cinnabaris). 

Medor Medorrhinum. 

Merc. V Mercurius vivus. 

Mez Daphne niezereum. 

Mill Millefolium. 

Morph Morphia. 

Mosch Moschus. 

Mur p Murex purpurea. 

Naja Naja tripudians. 

Naphthal Naphthalinum. 

Nat. c Natrum carbonicum. 

Nat. m Natrum muriaticum. 

Nat. phos Natrum phosphoricum. 

Nat. s Natrum sulphuricum. 

Nit. s. d Nitri spiritus dulcis. 

Nitrum Nitrum (see Kali nit.) 

Nuph Nuphar luteum. 

Nux j Nux juglans [see Juglans 

Regia) . 

Nux m Nux moschata. 

Nux V Nux vomica. 

CEnanth GE^nanthe crocata. 

Olean Oleander. 

01. jec. as Oleum jecoris aselli. 

Op Opium. 

Orig Origanum. 

Osm Osmium. 

Paeon Paeonia. 



22 INTRODUCTION. 

Abbreviations, Names of Medicines, 

Pall Palladium. 

Pareir. b Pareira brava. 

Petr Petroleum. 

Petrosel Petroselinum. 

Phell Phellandrium. 

Phos Phosphorus. 

Physos Physostigma. 

Phyt Phytolacca. 

Plant Plantago major. 

Plat. .... Platina. 

Plumb Plumbum. 

Plumb, ac Plumbum aceticum. 

Pod Podophyllum peltatum. 

Pru. s Prunus spinosa. 

Psor ' Psorinum. 

Pumpkin seed Pumpkin seed ( Cucurbita 

pepo). 

Puis Pulsatilla nigricans. 

Pyrogen (Also called Sepsin.) 

Quinse arsenias See Chinin. ars. 

Quinse sulphas See Chinin. sulph. 

Ran. b Ranunculus bulbosus. 

Ran s Ranunculus sceleratus. 

Ratan Ratanhia. 

Rhe Rheum. 

Rho Rhododendron. 

Rhus t. . Rhus toxicodendron. 

Rhus V. . Rhus venenata. 

Rob Robinia. 

Rum. c Rumex crispus. 

Rut Ruta. 

Saba Sabadilla. 

Sabal. serr Sabal serrulata (Saw Pal- 
metto). 



INTRODUCTION. 23 

Abbreviations. Names of Medicines. 

Sabin Sabina. 

Samb Sambucus niger. 

Sang Sanguinaria Canadensis. 

Sant '. . . . . Santonine. 

Sarsa Sarsaparilla. 

Scil Scilla. 

Sec Secale cornutum. 

Sel Selenium. 

Senec Senecio. 

Seneg Senega. 

Senna Senna. 

Sep Sepia. 

Sil Silica. 

Sodae salicyl Sodse salicylas (natrum sali- 

cylicum). 
Sodae selen. ........ Sodae selenias. 

Solan, acet Solanise acetas. 

Solidago V. a Solidago virga aurea. 

Spig ..Spigelia. 

Spon Spongia. 

Stan Siannum. 

Staph Delphinium staphisagria. 

Stell. med Stellaria media. 

Stict Sticta pulmonaria. 

Still Stillingia sylvatica. 

Stram Stramonium. 

Stroph, Strophanthus Hispidus. 

Strych . Strychnia. 

Strych. liq. . I^iquor strychniae. 

Strych. nit. Strychninum nitricum. 

Sul Sulphur. 

Symp Symphytum. 

Syz Syzygium. - 

Tab Tabacum. , 

Tamus •. . Tamus. 



24 INTRODUCTION. 

Abbreviations, Names of Medicines. 

Tara Taraxicum. 

Tarent Tarentula Hispana. 

Tarent. Cub Tarentula Cubensis. 

Tell Tellurium. 

Tereb Terebinthina. 

Teucr. . . .' Teucrium. 

Thlasp. b. p Thlaspi bursa pastoris. 

Thyr Thyroidin (Extract of Thy- 
roid glands). 

Til Tilia Buropoea. 

Thuj . . . • Thuja Occidentalis. 

Thrombid. Thrombidium. 

Tuberc. K Tuberculinum Kochii. 

Uran. n Uranium nitricum. 

Urtica • Urtica urens. 

Ustil Ustilago maydis. 

Uva u Uva ursi. 

Vaccin Vaccininum. 

Valer Valeriana. 

Variol Variolinum. 

Verat Veratrum album. 

Verat. v. . . . .... Veratrum viride. 

Verb Verbascum thapsus. 

Vib. op Viburnum opulus. 

Vine, m Vinca minor. 

Viol Viola odorata. 

Viol. t. . . Viola tricolor. 

Xanth Xanthoxylum. 

Zinc Zincum. 

Zinc, m Zincum muriaticum. 

Zinc, phos Zincum phosphoricum. 



INTRODUCTION. 25 

Abbreviations. Na^nes of Medicines. 

Zinc, s Zincutn sulphuricum. 

Zinc, valer Zincum valerianicuni. 

m. = minute. 

h. = hour. 

gl. = globule, 
gtt. = drop. 

gr. = grain. 

3i. = one drachm, or one teaspoonful. 
3ii. = two drachms, or one dessert-spoonful. 
§ss. or 3^v. = half an ounce or one table-spoonful. 

gi. = one ounce, or two table-spoonfuls. 

01. ^^ one pint. 



THE PRESCRIBKR. 



THE PRESCRIBER. 



Abdomen, Distended. — In fat, scrofulous children, 
Calc, c. 6, 61i. In thin, rickety children, Silic. 6, 
6h. When due to worms, Cina 3, 6h. If due to flat- 
ulence with constipation, Lye. 6, 6h. If from flatu- 
lence, with great pain, the bowels being open or 
loose, Dioscor. 3, 6h. Hysterical distension, Ign. 3, 
2h. As if a living animal were there, Thuj. 3, 2h. 
Dropsicai,. See Dropsy. 

Abortion. See Miscarriage. 

Abscess, or Suppuration,. 

Threatening. — Redness, pain and throbbing, without 
much swelUng, Bell, i, ih. Much swelling with or 
without redness, burning, throbbing, stinging pain, 
Apis 3x, ih. After Bell, or Apis, if either of these 
is insufficient to check the inflammatory action, 
Merc. sol. 6, 2h. Abscess near the rectum, Silic. 6, 4h. 

Formed. — When matter has actually formed, to assist 
the process and bring it to a favorable termination, 
Hepar s. 6, 3h. Locally, fomentations with hot Cal- 
endula lotion {Calend. ^ a teaspoonful to two table- 
spoonfuls of hot water) two or three times a day. 

Discharging — When an abscess has been opened, or 
has opened spontaneously, Silic. 6, 4h. ; locally, a 
lotion of Calendula ^ (one teaspoonful to two table- 
spoonfuls of water), to be kept applied, and changed 
27 



28 A C C — A C N. 

frequently. As soon as the bulk of the discharge has 
come away Calendula ointment should be substituted 
for the wet dressing. 

Chronic Suppuration. — Silic. 6, 6h.; locally Calen- 
dula lotion as above. With hectic fever; debility 
from great loss of fluids, Chi. 3, 2h. With great de- 
bility, low fever, red tongue, thirst, restlessness, 
anxiety, Ars. 3, 2h. Fistulous openings, Ac.fluor. 
6 gtt iii. 6h. Symptoms of blood-poisoning, Am. 
3, 4^- 

Accidents. See Brain, Concussion of; Bruise, 
Sprain, Wounds. 

Acidity. — Acid sulph. 3, 4h. With gastralgia and eruc- 
tations of wind, A7'g. niL 6, 4h. After food; every- 
thing taken, especially fat, oils, and sugar, "rises 
acid' ' ; the kind of dyspepsia that precedes tubercle, 
Calc. c. 6, 4h. Regurgitation of food tasting acid, an 
hour after eating; sinking sensation at epigastrium, 
Sulph. 6, 4I1. With distended feeling after the least 
food, constipation, thick urine with red deposit, Lye. 
6, 4h. Constant eructations and vomiting of in- 
tensely sour fluid, principally at night, Robinia 3, 
4h With much stomach flatulence, Carbo v. 6, 4h. 

See also Dyspepsia. 

Acne. — Simple and recent in young persons, Carb. v. 6, 
6th.; if plethoric, Bell. 3, 4h.; if pale, Puis. 3, 4h. 
More chronic, Kali brom. 3X — 30, 4h. From cold 
drinks, Bellis 3X, 4h. \_Sulpluir 6, 8h. may be given 
intercurrently with any of the other medicines; and 
it is often useful to apply at the same time a lotion of 
Sulph. ^ (a teaspoonful to the ounce) with a camel's 
hair brush to the spots.] 

Acne Rosacea.— (i) Carbo. an. 6, 6h. (2) Especially 
when connected with uterine derangement, Hydro- 



ADD — AMA 29 

cotyle 3x, 6h. From spirit-drinking, Nux v, 3, 4h. 
With much redness and active irritation, Rhus 3, 
6h. With blueness and tendency to chilblains, 
Agar. 3, 4h. Severe and inveterate cases, Ars, iod. 
3x, gr. ii. night and morning, after food. A lotion 
of equal parts of Acid sulphuros. and water may be 
apjDlied with advantage. See also Face. 

Addison's Disease.— (i) Adrenalin 2x— 30, 4h. (2) 
Nat. in. 6, 4h. (3) If this fails to do good in six 
weeks, Arg. n. 3X, 4h. (4) Silica 30, 8h. I should 
also suggest Bacil. 30 — 200, gl. v. once a week. 

After-Pains. See Labor. 

Ague. See Intermittent Fever. 

Ague-cake. See Spleen. 

Alcohol Habit. — To relieve the craving for alcohol in 
persons who wish to give up the habit, Cinchona 
riibra^ <l>, gtt. xxx. in a wineglassful of water three 
■ times a day. If the Cinchona does not appear to 
have the desired effect, or if its effect should de- 
crease, Sulph. 3, three times a day. After these 
Stroph. gl. i. — v., 8h. When the craving comes on, it 
may sometimes be allayed by eating a few raisins. 
An orange eaten before breakfast lessens the craving. 

Alcoholism, Acui^k. -S-?*? Delirium Tremens. —Chronic. 

Total abstinence. Morning vomiting, tremulousness, 
Nux V. 3, 4h. Irritability and nervous depression, 
Zhic. 6, 4h. Chronic vomiting, with white tongue, 
Ant. tart. 6, 4h. See also Liver: Cirrhosis. 

Alopecia. See Hair. 

Amaurosis. — Recent, Aco. 3, 4h. With appearances of 
bright objects. Bell. 3, 4h. From abuse of alcohol 
or tobacco, ( i ) great general sensitiveness and irrita- 



30 AMB — AN^ 

bility; sensitive to light: morning sickness, Nux V, 
3, 2h. ; (2) after Nux; sees different colors; letters 
look red when reading, Phos. 3, 2h ; (3) sees badly 
by candle-light; sight becomes dim when reading; 
photophobia, Hep. s. 6, 8h. From other causes, 
Tabac. 3, 4h. With conditions of nervous exhaus- 
tion and irritability, Fhos. 3, 4h. With paralytic 
conditions. Plumb, acet. 6, 6h. See Eyes: Sight. 

Amblyopia (Weak Sight: Commencing Amaurosis). — 
As a result of exhausting disease, Chi. 3, 4h. From. 
sexual excess, Ac. Phos, ix, 4h. From abuse of 
alcohol or tobacco, (i) Nux v. 3; (2) Phos. 3. See 
tinder Amaurosis. From over-use of the e3'es, 
Ruta gray. 3, 4h. From over-use of the eyes, with 
colored vision, Sa7it. 3X, 6h. 

Amenorrhoea. See Menstruation. 

Anaemia. — From exhausting diseases, discharges, or 
hcsmorrhage, Chi. 3, 4h. Simple anaemia, with 
throbbing headache, palpitation, Flitwick zvater^ a 
teaspoonful to a wineglassful, diluted, with meals. 
If iron in this form disagrees, any of the following 
may be tried: Ferruni. redact, gr. iii.; Ferr. mur. 
3x, gtt. iii.; Panish's food — each three times a day 
after food. (If iron does good at all, it does it 
rapidly, and it should be stopped as soon as the im- 
provement ceases. If there is no improvement at 
first, it should never be continued.) With constipa- 
tion; palpitation on 13'ing down; earthy complexion, 
Nat. inur. 6, 6h. Constipation ver}^ obstinate, 
Plumb, acet. 3, gr. ii. 8 h. With much sickness, in- 
ability to retain au}^ food, Petrol. 3, 4h. Anaemia, 
resulting from accidental stoppage of the menses. 
Puis. 3, 4h. Anaemia with excessive menstrual loss, 
the period coming on before its normal time, Calc. c. 
6, 4h. With marked indisposition to bodily or mental 



ANA— ANG 31 

exertion, and great increase of urates and phosphates 
in the urine, Acid, pier, 3, gr. ii. 8h In pale, flabby 
children, with tendency to enlarged tonsils, Calc, 
phos. 3, gr. iii. 8h. Chlorosis (green sickness), with 
mental depression, irritability, debility, and increase 
of phosphates in urine, Helonias ^ — 3, 4h. Anaemia 
in infants, thin and puny, with tendency to rickets, 
Silica 6, 8h. Anaemia with vomiting, acute epigas- 
tric pain and tenderness, palpitation and fainting, 
Arg, n. 6, ih. Acute pernicious anaemia, Ars. 3, 
4h. Anaemia depending on gastric or intestinal ulcer, 
or other known cause, see Stomach, Ui^cERATion 
OF, &c. 

Anasarca. See Dropsy. 

Aneurism. — (Where possible, complete rest in the hori- 
zontal position should be enjoined. ) Begin in general 
with Baryt. c. 3X, gr iii. 8h. If that fails, Lycopod, 
6, 4h.; special indications being constipation with 
flatulence and loaded urine. If both fail, iodide of 
potassium {Kali, iod.) gr. i. or gr. x. t. d.; special 
indications — great emaciation, cachectic subjects. 
When accompanied by symptoms of heart weakness, 
Ars. i. 3x, gr. ii. thrice daily, after food. See under 
Heart. 

Anger, Vioi^ent Fits of. — Nux. v. 3, 2h. Anger with 
violence alternating with fits of repentance, Croc, 
3, 2h. Suppressed anger; or uncontrollable outbreaks, 
Slaphys. 3 — 30, 2h. 

BffecTSOF. — Febrile distiirbance, Aeon. 3, 2h. Bilious 
fever, Cha^n. 6, 2h. Hysteria, Ign. 3, 2h. 

Angina Pectoris. — Paroxysm. — Palpitation, anxiety, 
small pulse; associated with epilepsy, Ac. hydrocy, 
3x, X^- P^^essure and oppression; darting, shooting, 
stabbing, or lacerating pain, faintness and dyspnoea; 



32 ANK — ANT 

pain down left arm; effects of tobacco or alcohol, 
^P^S' 3j X^- Nervous irritation, depression, pains 
at the heart, and tremulous irritability of the heart, 
Naja 6, %\i. Pain as if the heart were gripped with 
an iron hand, constriction of the chest, Cact. 3, ih. 
Pain at the heart with rheumatic symptoms. Act. r. 
3, ih. xlngina with asthmatic symptoms and cramps, 
Ctcpr. met. 6, }^\i. Oppression of breathing, with 
great restlessness; tobacco angina; dragging-dowu 
sensation, Lil. t. 30, 8h. Pain at heart when vomit- 
ing, or before and during menses, Lith. carb. 6, 8h. 
If other measures fail to relieve the pain, inhalations 
of Nitrite of Amyt may be given, 3 drops on cotton 
wool. 

The Disease — In the intervals between the attacks, 
the medicines, as indicated above, should be given 
three or four times a day. If there is organic dis- 
ease and weakening of the heart muscle, Ars. iod. 
3x, gr. ii. night and morning immediately after food. 
[When the digestion is disordered, the most scru- 
pulous attention must be paid to the dieting. Very 
often medicines given with a view^ to meeting the 
digestive symptoms will relieve the heart as well. 
When there is excessive flatulence, Carbo v. 6, half 
an hour before food, is most useful.] 

Ankles, Swoi^len. — Simple, Apis 3X, 4h. From de- 
bility, see Debility. From rheumatism, see Rheu- 
matism. From varicose veins, Hamam. 3, 4h; see 
Varicose Veins. Rest. 

Weak. — Almost all cases, Calc. phos. 3, gr. iii 8h. 
For pale children, Calc. carb. 6, 8h. Thin, rickety 
children, Silic. 6, 8h. 

Antrum of Highmore.— Discharge semi-purulent, offen- 
sive; opening communication with the mouth, Phos. 



ANU 33 

2, 3h. Pulsating pain, swelling, Mag. c. 6, 2h. 
Swelling, with tearing towards eye, Merc. c. 6, 2I1. 
Burrowing, tearing, Chel. i, 2I1. 

Anus. — B1.EEDING FROM. — Difficult stool, with some 
blood; painful bleeding piles; bleeding after wine or 
whisky, Ahunen 6, 4h. Severe bleeding whilst urin- 
ating; hard, knotty stools, followed b}^ bleeding; 
clots of blood; dripping of blood during evacuation 
of the bowels, Ahimma 6, 4h. See also Haemorrhoids. 

Fissure. — Sharp, cutting, sticking pain during stool 
and after; constipation, stool in hard masses, Ac. 
nit. 6, 6h. Pain, sn?arting and sore, stool in small 
lumps and covered with mucus, Graph. 6, 6h. Burn- 
ing soreness in anus, stool large, hard, dr}^ knotty, 
much pain in the back, ^scul. hip. 3, 6h. Burning 
in anus more after than before or during stool, stitches 
like stabs with penknife, stool loose or constipated, 
Ratanhia 3, 6h. 

ITCHING. — With itching of pudendum, Ambra 6, 8h. 
From ascarides. Tetter, ix, gtt. iii. 8h. With worm 
fever, Cin. 3, 8h. Violent itching, and cravv'ling in 
anus and rectum, Ig7iat. 3, 8h. While walking in 
open air, and after stool, Ac. nit. 6, 6h. Pricking as 
with pins; itching burning in anus. Alumina 6, 6h. 
Burning itching, smarting at night, Ant. crud. 6, 8h. 

pROivAPSE. — In children, Ferrurn phos. 6x, gr. ii. 8h. 
With diarrhoea, bleeding and tenesmus. Aloe 3, 8h. 
From moderate exertion at stool, Ign. 3, 8h. After 
every stool or sudden motion, as sneezing; with 
diarrhoea, especially in the morning, Pod. 6, 8h. 
With diarrhoea, green or yellow, with burning pain; 
or with hard insufficient stool and violent urging, 
Ganibog. 3, 8h. Prolapse whilst urinating, Ac. mur. 
6, 4h. 



34 ANX— APO 

Anxiety, Care, Grief, Worry, Effects oi^.—Ign, 3, 2I1. 

Aphonia. See Voice. 

Aphthae or Thrush. — Simple, in children or adults, 
Borax^ 3x (gr. ii. or gtt. i.) 2h. The mouth to be 
washed every two or three hours with a lotion of 
Borax ^ one grain to the ounce. In children with 
vomiting of milk, Ant. tart. 6, 2h.; localh^, solution 
oi Potas . pemiang . one grain to the ounce (or Condy's 
fluid, purple, five drops to the teacupful) ever)^ two or 
three hours. With salivation and tenderness of sali- 
vary glands, Kali chloric, (chlorate of potash) 3, 2h.; 
wash of chlorate of potash, one grain to the pint. 
With salivation and slimy diarrhoea, Merc. cor. 6, 2h.; 
with Condy's fluid wash. Marasmic cases; ulcerous 
cases; profound prostration and low fever, with or 
without diarrhoea, Ars. 3, 2h. ; Condy's wash. 

Apoplexy, Threatened. — Giddiness, headache, fulness 
in the head in plethoric subjects, Xux v. 3, 3h. ; 
avoidance of all stimulating drink or food, and all 
excitement. Numbness and tingling, with arterial 
excitement, Aco?i. 3, 2h. 

Earey Symptoms. — Full, throbbing head with flushed 
face. Bell. 3, 2h. Hot fomentations to the head. 

Fit of. — Quick, full pulse. Aeon. 3, every quarter of 
an hour. Great redness of the face, and signs of 
active congestion of the head, Bell. 3, every quarter 
of an hour. In cases of less active congestion and 
fever, where there have been errors of diet, Nux v. 3, 
every quarter of an hour. Dusky-red face, comas, 
stertor, Opium 3, everv^ quarter of an hour. Absence 
of signs of active congestion, Ar7i. 3, every quarter 
of an hour. 



APP — AST 35 

After-effects. — When sensibility is recovered, Arn, 
3, ih. Resulting paralysis, see Paralysis. 

Appetite. — Disorders of. — Usually symptomatic of 
depraved bodily conditions, and best remedied by 
measures directed to those conditions. 

Depraved. — For salt things, Calc. c. 6, 6h. For cold 
raw food, Sil. 6, 6h. For vinegar, Sep. 6, 6h. For 
beer, Puis. 3, 2h. For sour, highly-flavored, pun- 
gent things. Hep. 6, 6h. For sour, refreshing things, 
Carb. a. 6, 6h. Longing for unknown things, Chi, 
3, 6h. 

Lost. — Want of appetite, which returns while eating, 
Chi. 3, 6h. Aversion to meat, Code. c. 6, 6h. Com- 
plete loss of appetite for food, drink and tobacco, 
without disgust or bad taste for these things, Ign. 3, 
6h. Loss of appetite for everything, Rhus t. 3, 6h. 
Fulness after a few mouthfuls, as if too much had 
been eaten, Pru. s. 3, 6h. 

Increased. — Canine hunger, lod. 3X, 6h. Feels faint 
if he does not eat every three or four hours, lod. 3X, 
6h. Gnawing hunger, lod. 3X, 6h. Sensation of 
emptiness wdth debility, Ign. 3, 6h. Sinking feel- 
ing. Act. r. 3, 6h. Canine hunger without appetite, 
Rhus t. 3, 6h. 

Arteries, Diseases of.— Suspected atheroma, Phos. 3, 
6h. See Aneurism. 

Arthralgia See Joints. 

Arthritis. See Joints. 

Ascarides. See Worms. 

Ascites. — Yv^henever the ascites is the principal trouble, 
if the symptoms indicate no other remedy, Apocy. '^ 



36 AST 

gtt, i. 3h. See also Dropsy. Treat the patients 
according to the conditions on which the ascites 
depends 

Asthenopia. See Eyes : Sight. 

Asthma. — Paroxysm. — Recent and uncomplicated, Ac. 
hydrocy. 3x., i5ni. Pure spasmodic asthma, spasm 
very prominent all over body, vomiting after the 
attack, Cupr. met. 6, 15m. Attack occurring early 
in morning: frequently induced by disorders of 
stomach, Nux vom. 3, 15m. Occurring periodically 
at midnight or 2 a. m. , Ars. 3, 15m. Occurring from 
3 to 5 A. M., Kali c. 6, 15m. Pulse full, anxiousness, 
restlessness, fear, Aeon. 3, 15m. Useful in many 
cases, especially in stout people and when there is a 
malarial element, Blatt. 2x — 3X, 2h. in the attack, 6 — 
30, 6h. in interval. Convulsive breathing, nausea or 
vomiting, cold sweat on the face, Verat. v. 3, 15m. 
Kausea and great depression of heart, Lobel. 3, gtt. 
i. 15m. Where the asthma is not pure, but associated 
with catarrh and cough, if the m^ucus is scanty, /pee. 
3, 15m. If the mucus is profuse. Ant. t. 6, 15m. If 
these fail, Stramonium cigarettes may be smoked as 
a palliative. If possible, however, this should be 
avoided as the use of them is a distinct hindrance to 
the cure of the condition. 

Intervals. — Spasmodic variety ; vomiting after attack, 
Cupr. ni. 6, 6h. Attacks occurring early in morning, 
stomach disorders, AV^jr v. 3, 6h. Where there is, in 
addition to the attacks, general debility, loss of flesh,, 
tendency to night sweats, bowels loose or regular, 
tougue clean or red, relief by heat, attacks worse in 
cold, damp weather, Ars. 3, 6h. Chronic asthma; 
sudden suppression of chronic eruptions; psoriasis; 
gout; tendency to skin eruptions; patient subject to 
fainting spells; sinking sensation in the forenoon; 



ATH — BAL 37 

flushes of heat, Sidph. 3, 6h. (Asthma is usually 
constitutional, and each case must be treated accord- 
ing to the symptoms of each patient. ) 

Atheroma. See Arteries. 

Athetosis. — Liq. Strychnics^ 3X, gtt. ii. t.d. Galvanism: 
positive pole on spine, negative on muscles involved. 

Atrophy.— /^^. 3x, 6h. With fever, Ars. 3, 6h. Chilli- 
ness, earthy complexion, constipation, Nat. in. 6, 6h. 
Wasting of muscles and paralysis. Plumb, acet. 6, 6h. 

Axilla. — Pain, irritation or swelling in, Jug. c, i, 4h. 
Inflamed glands, Baryt. c. 6, 4h. Abscess iu^Hep. 6, 
2h. Perspiration excessive, Kali carb. 12, 4h. Offen- 
sive, Ac. mt. I, 4h Like garlic, Lye. 6, 4h. 

Back. — Aching. — From over-exertion, Ar?i. 3, 3h. From 
uterine affections, Act. r. 3, 3h. In pregnant women, 
with sense of weakness in the back, Kalt carb. 
6, 6h. Intense, neuralgic backache, Variol. 2co, 8h. 
With oxalates in urine, Ac. oxal. 6, 4h. With scanty 
urine, Terebinth. 3, 2h. With piles, y^scnl. h. 3, 6h. 
See also Lumbago a7id Menstruation, Painfui.. 

Weakness of. — In rickety subjects, Silic. 6, Sh. In 
hysterical subjects, Ign. 3, 6h. After exhausting 
disease, (i) Chi. 3, 6h.; (2) Calc. phos. 3, gr. ii. 8h. 
With sexual weakness and from sexual excess, Phos. 
3, 4h. [A magnetic belt is sometimes of service in 
these cases.] 

Baker's Itch. -S^^ Lichen. 

Balanitis — Merc. sol. 6, 8h, Cleanse thoroughly every 
four hours, and bathe with a lotion of Cale?idula (ten 
drops to the ounce). 

Baldness. See Hair. 



38 BEA— BIIv 

Beard. — Pustui^ar Eruptions. — Hepar s. 6, 8h. Oint- 
ment of dilute acid Nitrate of Mercury \.o be applied 
at bedtime. Sycosis (ringworm of the beard), Calc. c. 
6, 6h. Acid sulphurous dil. to be applied at bedtime. 

Bed-sores. — Prevention. — Bathe with whisky the parts 
that are exposed to pressure. Put the patient on a 
water-bed. When sores have formed, apply Hyperi- 
cum Oil (made by extracting hypericum in hot olive 
or linseed oil). The prevention and management of 
bed-sores is a matter of nursing chiefly. The medical 
treatment must be directed to the general condition. 
If the bed-sores themselves become the most im- 
portant feature of the case, see under Ulcers and 
Gangrene. 

Belching. See Eructations. 

Bilious Attack. — When the attack has come on, with 

vomiting of bile, violent headache, diarrhoea, Iris v. 
3, ^h. With constipation, light stools, sharp pain 
in liver, tongue like wash-leather, frontal headache, 
depression, Biy. 3, ^h. Complete suppression of bile, 
white stools, yellow skin, Chui. 3, 2h. Pains in the 
eyes and over them, blackish, foetid, liquid stools, 
Leptand. 3, ^h. Morning diarrhoea, green or yellow 
stools, Podoph. 6, jh. After over-indulgence in al- 
cohol, or over-eating, in spare, sedentary persons, 
constipation, depression, Niix v. 3, ^'^h. After fat or 
rich food, Puis, 3, ^h. Sharp pains in the liver, 
pains in the loins and constipation, Berb. 6, ih. 
(Bilious attacks are generally the expression of a 
morbid constitutional state, usually the psora of 
Hahnemann. This must be treated constitutionally. 
See B11.10USNESS). 

See also Diarhoea, Dyspepsia, and Vomiting. 



B I I. — B L A 39 

Bilious Fever. See Remittent Fever. 

Biliousness. — Patients who are subject to periodical 
attacks of biliousness should take regular exercise, 
avoid alcoholic drinks of all kinds, eat sparingly of 
meat, and avoid rich or fat food. The removal of 
the tendency may be assisted by the following 
medicines, which must be given according to the 
symptoms of the patient over a length of time: — 
In blooodless subjects, with pale or flushed face, 
and throbbing head, Fer. metal. 6, 4h. In persons 
of costive habit, subject to one-sided headache. 
Kali c. 6, 8h. In dark, sallow, spare persons of 
sedentary life, subject to constipation, Ahix v. 3, 8h. 
Persons who suffer from acidity, sinking at pit of 
stomach in forenoon, fainty spells, constipation and 
piles, Sulph, 6, 8h. In gouty subjects, with loaded 
urine, Nat. sulph. 6x, gr. ii 8h. When there is 
abdominal flatulence, constipation, and scanty urine, 
Lye. 6, 8h. Discomfort in the region of the liver, 
constipation, the stools being composed of very 
minute lumps, Magnes. mur. 6.,8h. See also Anse* 
mia, Liver, Constipation, Diarrhoea, &c. 

Bites. See Stings and Hydrophobia. 

Black-eye. — Atn. 3, ^h. if skin unbroken, Am. ix, 
ten drops to the ounce of w^ater, to be applied as a 
lotion. If the skin is broken, a lotion of Hania- 
melis^, five drops to the ounce, to be applied instead. 

Bladder, IrriI^abi.e. — Frequent desire to pass water, 
which is natural or increased in quantity and slightly 
burning, Apis 3X5 2h.; constant desire, only a few 
drops voided, CantK 3, 2h. Burning, cutting, or 
sticking pain in urethra (especiall}^ the female 
urethra) during and after urinating; frequent desire, 
Berh. <i>, gtt. li. ^h — 4h. Burning in region of 



40 BIvE — BLI 

kidneys, bladder, and ureter, strangury, Tereb. 3, 
yih. — 4h. Irritation of the neck of the bladder and 
urethra in old women, Copaib. 3X, 4h. Incontinence 
of urine, chiefly during the day, Ferr. phos. 6x, gr. ii. 
6h. Irritable bladder in gouty or alcoholic subjects; 
irritability of bladder and rectum, with urging, at 
the same time, with little or no result, Nux v. 3, 4h. 
Involuntary passage of urine in sleep. Senega 3, 6h. 
In sleep during the daytime, or during the night, 
Bell. I, 6h. Involuntary passage of urine on cough- 
ing or sneezing, Caust. i, 6h. See under JJiine, 

Parai^ysis OF. — (i) Op. I, 2h. (2) Canth.i, 2h. When 
there is a continuous sensation as if imperfectly 
relieved of its contents, Secale i, 4h. See also 
Strangury; XJrine, Rktainkd. 

Acute Infi^ammation of. — Ca^ith. 3, 2h. If caused 
by chill in damp w^eather. Dulc 3, 2h. Symptomatic 
of kidney affection or calculus, wdth much secretion 
of mucus, Pareh^a 4>, gtt. x. 4h. 

Chronic Infi^ammatign or Catarrh of. — Canth. 3, 
6h. With incontinence of urine in bed at night, Puis. 
3x, 6h. Water smelling like horse's. ( i) Ac. Benz. 3X, 
6h. (2) Nit. ac. 5, 4h. If these fail, Chimaphila 4>, 
gtt. V. 6h. 

Blepharitis. See Eyes : Eyei^ids. 

Blepharospasm. — involuntary twitching of eyelids, 
Codeia 3, 6h. If continued, wdth spasmodic affection 
of muscles of eyeballs, Agar, i, 4h. With dazzling 
of sight. Puis. 3, 4h. With ciliary spasm, patient 
unable to read w^ithout pain and frontal headache, 
aggravated by light, Physostig. 3X, 6h. 

Blindness. See Amaurosis, Amblyopia, Eyes : Sight. 



B L O — B O X 41 

Blood-poisoning. Str Pyaemia. 

Blood-spitting. St^e HaBmoptysis. 

Blood-vomiting. See Haematemesis. 

Bloody Flux. See Dysentery. 

Blushing. — Too Easily. — When eating, Card. a. 6, 8h. 
After eating, Carlsbad ^o, Sh. 

Boils. — Preventive, when there is tendency to them, Am. 
3, Sh. When just beginning to form, Bell. 3, 2h. 
When further advanced, Silic. 3, gr. ii. 6h.; a lotion 
of Calc. viur. ix (a drachm to three ounces), may be 
kept constantly applied from the beginning. When 
matter has formed, Hep. s. 6, 4h. Boils after fevers, 
P/iyL I, 4h. When crops of boils are constantly ap- 
pearing, Siilph. 3, 6h, given for a length of time, will 
probably check the tendency. Succession of boils, 
Anthrac. 30, 2 — 6h. 

Bone. — Bruise. — Ruta i, 2h.; RtUa ^ (ten drops to the 
ounce) for a lotion. 

Periostitis. — Simple, Mezer. 3, 3h. Syphilitic, Aur. 
niur. 3x, gtt. ii. 2h. Rheumatic, Merc. sol. 6, 4h. 
Scrofulous, Silic, 6, 4h. Of forehead and face, Phy- 
tolac. 3, 2h. With increased formation of bone, Phos. 
3, 3I1. 

Necrosis. — Phos. %, 3h. After Phos., Silic. 6, 4h., if 
necessary. 

Caries. — Bacil 30 — 200, gl. iv. once a week. In 
children, if thin and puny, Silic. 6, 8h. In fat 
children, Calc. c. 6, 8h. In syphilitic subjects, Ac. 
fluor. 3, 6h. In scrofulous subjects, (i) Silic. 6, 8h., 
(2) Phos. 3, Sh. Of long bones, August. 3, gr. iii. — . 
6, 6h. 
4 



42 BOR — BRA 

Nodes. — With burning and boring pain in the bones, 
and redness and swelHng, Aiir viur. 3X, gtt. ii. 6h. 
Especially on bones of head, Kali bich. 3X, gr. ii. 4h. 
Soft, on forehead, Nux v. 3, 2h. With night pains 
in the bones, Mezer. 3, 6h. If these fail. Stilling. 

IX, 6h. See also Rheumatism : Syphilitic. 

Exostoses.— Syphilitic, Merc. cor. 3, 6h. Of the head, 
Kali bich. 3X, 6h. Painful, Heclce lava 6, 6h. On 
the jaws, Plumb, acet. 3 gr. ii. 8h. 

Paixs IX. — Nighth', in syphilitic patients, Mezer. 3, 
6h. If very chronic, Aur. niur. 3X, gt. ii. 6h. Light- 
ning pains, Ac.fluor. 3, 6h. As if bruised, Rtita 3, 
6h. On the approach of stormy weather, Rhod. 3, 
6h. In influenza, Eupat. perf. 3, 3h. 

Borborygmi. — Rumex crisp. 6, 4h. Preceding a loose 
stool; sound as if a bottle were being emptied, 
Jatropha 3, 4h. With constipation and abdominal 
distension. Lye. 6, 4h. With worm symptoms, Cin. 

Bowels. -S^?*? Abdomen, Anus, Colic, Constipation, 
Diarrhoea, and Peritonitis. 

Brain. — Coxcussiox of. — Am. 3, gtt. i. >^h. 

CoxGESTiON OF. — Flushed face, bright eyes, dilated 
pupils, active delirium, Bell. 3, ih. Xon-inflamma- 
tory, arising from exposure to intense cold, from sea- 
sickness, or suppressed menses, Bry. 3, ih. Retro- 
cession of eruptions; difficult dentition, Cupr. acet. 
3, ^ — ih. Determination of blood to the head; con- 
gestion after great losses of blood, Ferr pyrophos ix, 
gr. i. 6h. Vertigo, sensation of band round temples, 
inability to concentrate thought. Gels. 3, 3h Tight 
sensation from sunstroke, Cact. 3, ]/i^. Violent 
throbbing, congestion from exposure to sun or heat, 



BRA — BRE 43 

from suppression of menses, or in pregnancy, GIo7i. 
3, 2h. Oppression, drowsiness, constipation, Op. 3, 
ih. With predisposition to apoplexy, Nux v. 3, 2h. 
Chronic cases, heat at vertex, faint feeling, feet cold 
or else burning, Sul. 3, 6h. See also Sunstroke. 

Dropsy of. See Hydrocephalus. 

SoFTKNiNG. — The symptoms of this disease vary so 
very much that each case must be treated by itself; 
but two medicines will be found very generally of 
service — Phos, 3, and Baryt. c. 6. If no other medi- 
cine is indicated, they may be given, each four times 
a day, on alternate weeks. 

Brain-fag. — Nervous prostration, Ac, phos. ix, gtt. ii. 6h. 
Great indifference; lack of will-power to undertake 
anything, Ac. pic. 3, 6h. Distracted and incapable 
of mental exertion from much mental work of dif- 
ferent kinds in rapid succession, ^thus. cynap. 3, 
6h. Ivoss of memory ' ' funk " before an examination, 
Anacard. 3, 3h. Pale subjects with tendency to large 
tonsils; brain weakness after much worry, or after 
illness, Calc, phos. 3, gr. ii. 8h. Chronic headache, 
nervousness, and loss of memory from overwork; 
sufferings aggravated by cold and relieved by warmth, 
Silic. 6, 8h. 

Brain Fever. See Mania and Typhus Fever. 

Breast. — Abscess of. — Threatening. As soon as the 
first symptoms of pain or hardness come on, Bry. 3, 
ih. This will often abort the process. If ^rj/. fails 
to check it in forty-eight hours, give Phytolac. i, 2h., 
and apply spongio-piline wrung out of hot water and 
sprinkled with a lotion of Phytolac^ (gtt x — Svi.). 
Less hardness than Bry.^ red streaks radiating from 
a central point to the circumference, Bell. 3, ih. 
Should suppuration occur, give Hepar 6, 3h. Foment 



44 B R E — B R O 

with hot Calendula lotion (ten drops to the ounce), 
or poultice, and if necessary make an incision as soon 
as pointing occurs. After incising leave off poultices, 
support the breast well, and dress it twice a day with 
Calendula lotion (ten drops to the ounce) giving 
Silic 6, 3h. Sinuses left after breast abscess, Silic. 6, 
3h. For breast troubles during weaniug, see Lacta- 
tion. 

CoN'TusiON OF. — Conium 3, 2h. 

Pain in — Sharp, piercing pain in right breast just 
below nipple; difficult to take a deep inspiration; ex- 
tending to the stomach; to the shoulder, making it 
difficult to raise the arm; before menses. Sang. 3, 2h. 
Breasts painful before menses, Co7i 3, 2h. If menses 
are copious and early, Calc, c. 30, 4h., for week 
before period is expected. 

Pain bki.ow Left Breast ( Infra-Mammae y Pain). 
— In unmarried females, Act. rac. i, 2h. With scanty 
menses. Puis. 3, 6h. Rheumatic, Ranunc. b. i, 3h. 

Breast Pang. See Angina Pectoris. 

Breath, Fcetid.— (i) Am. 3, 3h. (2) Merc. sol. 6, 3h. 
(3) When mercurial, Ac. nit. 6, 3h. Putrid, Aur, 
met. 30, 8h. Bad odor from mouth after dinner; 
sour-smelling breath, Nux v. 3, 3h. Odor of onions, 

Pt.tjol. 3, 4h 

Breathing. See Croup, Asthma, Heart, &c. 
Bright's Disease. See Kidneys. 

Bronchial Glands.— r»isEASE ov.—Bacil. 30—200, gl. 
iv., once a week. {See under Glandular Swell- 
ings, Chroxic.) When there is distressing spas- 
modic cough, Calc. c. 6, 2h. If the cough is accom- 



BRO 45 

panied b}- flushing of the face, and comes on when 
lying down at night, Bell 3, ih. 

Bronchiectasis. — Treatment must be according to the 
catarrhal symptoms, as indicated below under Bron- 
chitis. If sputa very offensive, inhalations of 
Kreasote (gtt. xxx. in an inhaler, thrice daily) may 
be given in addition to other treatment. 

Bronchitis. — in the earliest stage, chills, fever, oppres- 
sion, dry, tickling cough, Aeon. 3, ih. Fever estab- 
lished, dry, hacking cough, or with a little mucus, 
hoarseness, soreness along trachea; pains betw^een 
shoulders, sharp pains in chest; tongue white, con- 
stipation, Bjy. 3, ih. Cough looser, tendency to 
perspiration, Mere. sol. 6, 3h. Cough spasmodic, 
great dyspnoea, little expectoration, dry sounds in 
chest in day, moist at night, symptoms worst at 
night, Ipee. 3, ih. Oppression of chest, great de- 
pression, cough and hoarseness, much expectoration, 
clear or white; tongue w*hite, cream}^ disgust for 
food, inclination to vomit; capillary bronchitis in 
children, A7it. tart. 6, 2h. Acute or chronic bron- 
chitis, w^here the mucus is tough and stringy and 
difficult to raise. Kali bieh. 3X, 2h. Cough spas- 
modic, waking the patient up in the night, very little 
expectoration, Ars. 3, 2h. Bronchitis with fever and 
night sweat, purulent expectoration; phthisical symp- 
toms; great w^eakness, Ars. iod. 3X, gr. iii. thrice 
daily immediately after food. Broncho-pneumonia, 
Phos. 3, 2h. Spasmodic cough, dry or with copious 
expectoration, oppression of the chest, with stitches 
or burning; often accompanied with nasal catarrh. 
Sang. 3, ih. Somewhat chronic bronchitis, profuse 
yellow expectoration, hoarseness, sensation of a clot 
of mucus, or internal swelling wiien swallowing, 
Hep. s. 6, 2h. In delicate blonde subjects, lax fibre. 



46 BR O— B R U 

abundant expectoration, Puis. 3, 2h. Chronic cases, 
after subsidence of acute symptoms, tendency to 
headache, liver sluggish, asthmatic, constipation, 
Siilph. 3, 4I1. Acute or chronic cases, much oppres- 
sion at chest; cough worst night and morning, dry 
except after night's rest; short or spasmodic, general 
health affected, Ac. nit. 6, 2h. In old persons with 
blue nails and cold extremities, hoarse, profuse ex- 
pectoration without power to raise it, Cai'b. veg. 6, 2h. 
Long-standing bronchitis in old people, physical 
powers depressed, expectoration difficult to raise 
from want of power, Annn, carh. 3X, ih. In old 
people, cough irritating and shaking, Senega 3, 2h. 
Where there is irritability of the bladder, the cough 
causing expulsion of urine, Canst. 6, 3h. Spasmodic 
cough with difficult expulsion of phlegm, and feeling 
of soreness all down trachea and under sternum, 
Runiex crisp. 6, 2h. Cough coming on on lying 
down, Hyoscy. 3, 2h. Short, dry cough, from tickle 
under middle of sternum, coming on when lying 
down at night, Coniuin. 3, 2h. (These two medicines 
may be given at night, whilst others are given by 
day, should the general symptoms indicate other 
medicines, and the night cough call for one of these.) 
Bronchitis of Infl.uenza, suspicioush^ like Tubercu- 
losis, Aviaire 30, 4h. See also Coilg'h, 

Croupous Broxchitis. — Kali bichrom. 3X, 2h. 

Brow Ague. — Recent, Chin sulph. 3X, 3h Chronic, 

Ars. 3, 3h. See also Headache. 

Bruises. — Of the soft parts, Am. 3, ih. A lotion of 
Am. 6 or ix (five drops to the ounce), or Ar/iica oil 
should be applied to the part if the skin is unbroken. 
If the skin is broken, a lotion of Hamani. 6 (two 
drops to the ounce). Bruises of the bones, R^tta 3, 
2h; and Riita (ten drops to the ounce) for a lotion. 



BUB — BUR 47 

Of the female breast, Bellis 3x, 2h. After Bellis^ 
Con. 3, 2h. Of parts rich in nerves (especially fin- 
gers, toes, and matrix of nails) ; injuries to the spinal 
cord and resulting paralysis, Hypericum 3, 3h.; a 
liniment consisting of equal parts of Hyperic. 0^ 
spirit of wine, and distilled water, to be rubbed 
with the hand on the injured part (if the spine) 
three times a day; or to be kept applied on soft linen 
(if it is the extremities, and the injury is recent). 

Bubo. — Whether simple or syphilitic, Merc. sol. 6, 2h. 
If the patient is already under the influence of mer- 
cury, Ac. nit. 6, 2h. Should these fail to check the 
disease after three days' trial, (i) Badiag. 6, 4h. ; (2) 
Carb an. 6, 4h. (Under this treatment it will fre- 
quently disperse; and so long as there is any chance 
of this, poultices should be avoided. They may be 
resorted to with advantage when suppuration and 
discharge are inevitable. ) When discharge has taken 
place, the same medicine may be continued, and a 
lotion of Calend. (5i. — Ji.) applied frequently. 
Should the wound become phagedsenic, iodoform 
powder should be dusted freely on the wound after 
frequent cleansing with warm water irrigation; in- 
ternally, J^ali iod. gr. v. , 6h. 

Bunion. — The true bunion from pressure, Silic. 6, 8h. 
Use as a lotion, and apply as a compress at night, 
Kali iod. gr. x — Ji. of water. Rheumatic enlarge- 
ment of the bursa, Rhod. 3, 3h. (If inflamed, a lini- 
ment of equal parts of Verat v. 6, of spirit of wine, 
and distilled water may be applied. ) In gouty sub- 
jects, Benz. ac. 3X, 8h. 

Burns and Scalds. — if slight, without vesication, Urtica 
ure?is 6 (one part to four of water) to be applied as a 
lotion and the rags k ept wet with it, without being 
removed. If there is vesication, Canth. (one part 



48 BUR — CAL 

to ten of water) to be applied in the same way, and 
Canth. 3, ih,, given internally. If the burn is exten- 
sive, it should be covered with lint soaked in carron 
oil (equal parts of linseed oil and lime water) ^ and 
Canth. 3, ih , given internally. If the burns are deep, 
destroying the skin, Kali bichr. 3X, 2h. ; CalefidtilaO 
lotion (one part to four of water). Suppuration after 
burns. Hep. 6, 4h. 

Bursitis. See Housemaid's Knee. 

Caecum, Inflammation of (Typhi^itis). — Cutting or 
tearing pain right side of abdomen, distension, sensi- 
tiveness, irritability, Lack. 6, 2h. Burning pain, 
swelling in caecal region, anguish, restlessness, pros- 
tration, fever, thirst, Arse7i. 3, 2h. Low, typhoid 
fever, restlessness, tearing pain, Rhus t. 3, 2h. Quar- 
relsome delirium, pain and soreness across abdomen, 
full, bounding pulse, Verat. v. 3, 2h. Application of 
liniment of Vej^atrum viride 6 (one part to thirty of 
w^ater). 

Inflammation of Peritoneum around (Peri- 
typhlitis). Same as for Peritonitis (which see). 

Calculus.— Biliary (Gall-stones), Passage oi^.—Calc. 
c. 30, 15m. Should this fail to relieve within three 
hours, Berb. ^, 15m. Those subject to gall-stones 
should not go too long (not more than six hours 
during the day) without food. For prevention of 
their formation, Chi. 6, 8h., for four w^eeks, and then 
at increasing intervals. 

Renal, Passage of. — Berberis ^, 15m. Should this 
fail Pareira brava ^ 5^^. in a wineglassful of warm 
distilled water every half hour. 

Prevention. — Gravelly urine, pain in back and loins, 
Berb. 4>, 6h. Drink distilled water. 



CAN 49 

Vesica I. Tendency to. See Gravel. 

Of the Lung. — Coughing up of calcareous nodules, 
Calc. c. 6, 4I1. 

Cancer. — Diathesis. — Worn, jaded look, yellow or sal- 
low complexion, "hide-bound" state of skin, low 
spirits, loss of appetite, chronic constipation, Hydrast. 
I, 8h. Tendency to fatness, sluggish circulation, lazy 
disposition, tendency to glandular enlargements, 
Phyt. I, 8h. Thin, wiry, anxious patients, of cachec- 
tic appearance, poor appetite, inactive digestion, 
with tendency to diarrhoea and various skin affec- 
tions, with burning pains, Ars. iod. 3X, gr. ii. thrice 
daily (immediately after food). 

BpitheIvIoma of Tongue and other Parts.— In 
doubtful cases, Thuja 3X, 6h.; locally. Thuja ^ to te 
painted on with camel 's-hair brush night and morn- 
ing. Decided cases, Hydrast. i, 6h.; locally a 
mixture of equal parts of Hydrast. ^ and glycerine 
to be painted on night and morning. If after five or 
six weeks of this treatment there is no improvement 
in cancer of the tongue. Kali cyanat. 3X, gr. ii. 
night and morning. Of lip. Sepia 3, gr. ii. t. d. 
Epithelioma of lip or elsewhere, Ars. i. 3X, gr. ii. 
thrice daily, after food; locally, a solution of Arsen. 
3x (ten drops to the ounce) to be painted on night 
and morning. 

Of Breast. — In all cases let all pressure or friction be 
avoided and the breast kept cool. 

In DouBTFUiy Cases. — Where there is a painful nodule 
on the breast, of which it is impossible to decide the 
nature, Bry. i, 8h. A painless, stationary enlarge- 
ment, Calcium iod. 3X, gtt. ii. 8h. If there is debility 
and decided increase, Ars. i. 3X, gr. ii. thrice daily, 
after food. 



50 CAN 

Undoubtkd Casks.— (i) Begin with Hydrast. ix, 6h. 
Hydrast. lotion ( 5i. to giii. ) may be applied locally. 
(2j If the disease advances in spite of this, after one 
or two months of trial, Ars 3X — 3, 6h. (^3) Espe- 
cially indicated if there are cracks at the commissures 
of the lips, Condurango ix, 6h. Should these fail, 
the following may be given according to indica- 
tions: — Torpid constitution, melancholy, irritable, 
menses scanty or suppressed and painful, Coni. i, 3h. 
Irritable, ner^^ous, fanciful patients; tumour not 
very sensitive to pressure, great pain in the arm, 
with rigidit}^ and loss of power, Cicuta v. 3x, 3h. If 
the w^hcle breast is hard, bluish-red, and covered with 
protuberances, Ki^eas. 3, 3h. Hard, painful lumps 
in breast, Aster, ruhens. 12, 8h. Sycotic patients, 
Thicj. 30, 8h. 

Open Cancers. — Threatened Ueceration.— Thin, 
anxious patients, puckering of the skin over the 
tumour, Ars. i. 3X, gr. ii. thrice daily, after food. 
Cachectic, melancholic patients, tendency to consti- 
pation, skin hardening over the tumour, Hydrast. 
IX, 4h.; locally, an ointment of Hydrast. $, a drachm 
to the ounce of vaseline. 

AcTUAi, Ulceration. — Foetid discharge, Bapt ix, 
3h. ; a lotion of Bapt., ^ (five drops to the ounce of 
water) to be injected into the wound every few hours 
If the ulceration is angty^, irritable, and increasing, 
Hydrast. ix, 3h. being given internally, Hydrast. 
ointment (^a drachm to the ounce of vaseline) to be 
painted on with a camel's-hair brush, after syringing 
with a lotion of Hydrast. 4> ten drops, strong car- 
bolic acid five drops, water one ounce. Should this 
fail to relieve, Galium apar. 4>, 6h. ; locally, an appli- 
cation of equal parts of Galuiui ap. ^ and glycerine. 
Where there is bleeding, Sang. c. ix, 2h. ; locally a 



C A N— C A R 51 

lotion of Ham. 4' ^ten drops to the ounce). A useful 
ointment in open cancers is Ruta ointment^ made by- 
extracting the whole plant in vaseline. The ordinary 
Boracic acid ointment is also useful in many cases. 

Of Thk UTe:rus. — The same indications as for cancer 
of the breast. Frequent syringing with lotion of 
Hydrastis and Carbolic acid (as above), and applica- 
tion of plugs of lint charged with Hydrastis oint- 
ment. If there is much bleeding, Hamanielis may 
be substituted for Hydrastis, both in lotion and oint- 
ment, and in the same proportions. 

Of Bone. — Aur. lod., 3X, 6h. 

Fungus H^MATODES ( Bi^eeding Cancer). —(i) Phos. 
30, 6h., (2) Thuja 30, 6h.; application of dry lint, 
and pressure by a bandage. 

After removaIv of cancer of the breast, lod. 3X, 6h., 
followed, if no improvement in health in three weeks, 
by Kali i. gr. iii. 8h. 

For the Pains of cancer, if other remedies fail. Opium 
4>, gtt. yi, ih. 

Cancrum ()X\%,—Merc. cor. 3, ih.; application of glyce- 
role of Muriatic acid {Ac. hydrochlor. dil.^ B. P., gtt. 
v., Glycerine gss.) every two hours. Should Merc, 
cor. fail, Ars. 3, gr. ii. 2h. 

Carbuncle.— In general Anthrac. 30, 2— 4h. (This will 
often abort the case, and if it does not do that will 
conduct most cases to a favourable result. ) Heat, 
redness, throbbing, swelling, Bell. 3, 2h. When 
there is considerable thickening, Hepar s. 6, 2h. 
Application of lotion of Liquor. Calc. chlor. (ixa 
drachm to the ounce). Much oedema and swelling 
of tissues around. Apis 3X., ih., and Calc, chlor. 



52 CAR— CAT 

lotion. Dark blue appearance, Am, 3, ih.; lotion 
of Arnica "^ (5 drops to the ounce). Dark blue ap- 
pearance, coldness of the extremities, low vitality, 
Carb. V. 6, ih.; with burning, stinging pain, Tareni. 
cub. 30, 2h. General prostration and symptoms of 
blood poisoning, Lack. 6, ih. Dr\^ tongue, thirst, 
typhoid condition, Ai'S. 3, ih. Indolent carbuncle; 
also after it has begun to discharge, Sil. 6, 8h.; dress 
with boracic acid ointment (powdered Boracic acid, 
one drachm to an ounce of vaseline or prepared lard) 
or Calendula ointment. 

Caries. See Bone. 

Catalepsy. — CaJi. Ind. 3, 3h. if after a fair trial lasting 
over some weeks this fails, Cicuta vir^ 3, 3h. Coming 
on at monthly period, Mosch. 30, 8h. 

Cataract. — Soft, Colch, i, 4th. From injury, Con. 3, 4h. 
Capsular opacity, Euphras. 3X, 4h. ; lotion of Eu- 
phjas. ^ (ten drops to the ounce) three times a day. 
Hard cataract, in the early stage, concentric opaque 
laminae, Calc c. 6, 4h. Afterwards, if necessary, 
Phos. 3, 4h. Later stages, Silic. 6, 4h. 

Catarrh, Nasal. — Generai. Tendency to. — Merc. sol. 
6, 8h. In pale, fair, strumous subjects, Calc. c. 6, 8h. 
In patients subject to irritation of the skin, Sulph. 6, 
8h. In chilly subjects with unhealthy complexion 
and constipation, Nal. mur. 6, 8h. 

Chronic Nasai,. — In weakly, debilitated subjects, 
Ars. i. 3x, gr. ii. 8h. Where there is constipation and 
tendency to skin eruptions about tlie orifice, or be- 
hind the ears, Graph. 6, 8h. Fluent, intermittent; 
with much sneezing; chilliness; constipation, Nat m 
3 — 6, 8h. Depression, offensive discharge, bones of 
nose sore, syphilitic or mercurialized subjects, Aur, 



C x\ T — C H A 53 

mur. 3x, gtt. ii. 8h. Constant dropping of mucus from 
back of nose into throat, affection of Eustachian tube. 
Hydras t 3, 4h. Yellow or white stringy discharge, 
Kali bichrom. 3X, gtt. ii. 4h. Stinging and tickling 
in nose, with irritative swelling, vd\.h. or without free 
discharge, Sang, 3, 4h. See Ozaena, 

Chronic Catarrh of Larynx, Trache:a, and 
Bronchi — Copious white expectoration, rattling in 
chest; white tongue, nausea, dyspnoea; vital depres- 
sion. Ant. tart. 6, 6h, Broad, flabby tongue, clear 
mucus, Merc. sol. 6, 6h. In chilly subjects; enlarged 
spleen; constipation, Nat. m. 6, 6h. 

Chronic Catarrh of Alimentary Tract. — Stru- 
mous subjects, Calc. c, 6, 8h. Patients with tendency 
to eruptions, Sulph. 6, 8h. Blonde, impressionable 
subjects, Puis. 3, 8h. White, loaded, foul tongue, 
nausea, thirst, much mucus expectoration from the 
throat, Ant. crud. 6, 8h. 

Catarrhal Pneumonia. See Pneumonia. 

Catheterism. See Traumatic Pever. 

Cellulitis (Inflammation of Connective Tissue: 
First Stage of Abscess.)— Silic. 6, 4h. See also 
Abscess. 

Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis. See Meningitis. 

Chafing. See Excoriation. 

Chancre. — Hard — Mejx. sol. 6, 8h. ; application to the 
sore of water dressings only. See Syphilis. 

Soft. — Merc. sol. 6, 8h. ; to be constantly kept c-eansed. 
Should the sore become phagedenic whilst taking 
Merc.y give Acid nit. i, 2h.; application of Iodoform 
powder, and repeated irrigation. If no Merc, has 



54 CHA — CHE 

been given before phagedsena appears, Merc, cor, 3, 
2h, and Iodoform externally. See Bubo, 

Change of Life, Suffering from. — Nervousness, 
numbness in various parts, "sinking" sensation, 
flushings, constipation, sensation of ball in the throat, 
I%n. 3, 6h Restlessness, sleeplessness, '^sinking," 
unhappy state of mind, Act, r. 3, 4h. Flushings, 
symptoms worse on waking from sleep, external 
pressure (even of clothing) intolerable, melancholic, 
irritable, Lack. 6, 6h Leucorrhcea, sacral pain, per- 
sons of dark complexion and fine delicate skin, Sep, 
6, 6h. Loss of appetite, ''biliousness,'' taste of bile 
in mouth on waking, flushings, J^ali c, 6, 6h. Great 
irritability and nen^ousnes, depression of spirits, 
sensation of ball in the throat, sleeplessness, Valer. 
3, 6h. 

Chapped Hands. See Hands, 
Charbon. See Malignant Pustule. 

Cheloid.— ^z/^V. 3, gr. iii. 8h. 

Chest, Pains in — From taking cold. Aeon. 3, 2h. From 
over-exertion. Am. i, 2h. Sharp, cutting pains 
catching the breath, worse by motion or touch, Ery. 
3, 2h. Pressure with stitches, breathing, motion and 
contact all painful, left side especially aflfected, ^a«. 
b. 3, 2h Stitches beneath the right ribs, Chel. ix, 
2h. Pain under left breast, with amenorrhcea. Puis. 
3, 2h. Rheumatic pains in the chest. Act. r. 3, 2h. 
Sharp pain in praecordia and left nipple. Ran. <^. 3, 
2h. Sharp pain through lower part of left side of 
chest, Ac. oxal. 3, 2h. 

Sternum. — Pressure external and internal, Riita 3, 
2h. Oppression, and pressure beneath, Samb. 3, 2h. 
Pain internally behind sternum; spasmodic pressure 



CHI 55 

behind middle of, Chel. ix, 3h. Pressure in lower 
part; painful to touch, Ran b. 3, 2h. Cutting 
under sternum when coughing; pressing pain 
beneath sternum when coughing, with a feeling of 
warmth and rattling. Kali. nit. 3, 4h. inching in 
sternum and oppression of breath; cutting in middle 
of chest; shooting pains beneath; stitches, Sul. 3, 4h. 
Violent continual gnawing behind lowest part, ex- 
ternal painfulness. Ran. s. 3, 2h. Burning soreness 
behind xiphoid cartilage, Ran. s. 3, 2h. Burning 
sensation under sternum, Sang. 3, 2h. Suffocative 
post-sternal pain occurring on walking. Jug. reg. 3, 
2h. 

Dropsy of. See Hydrothorax and Pleurisy. 

Tightness, Oppression, &c. See Lungs, Heart, 
Pleurisy, Breathing and Cough. 

Chicken-pox. — For initial fever, Aeon. 3, 2h. When the 
vesicles form, Ant. tart. 6, 2h. When the fever is 
over, Merc. sol. 6, 4h. 

If there is much itching, application of Camphor- 
ated oil (Camphora gi., Ol. oliv. giv.) to the pocks 
with a camel' s-hair brush. 

Chilblains. — Tendency to. — Blonde girls with delayed 
menstruation, Puis. 3, 8h. Strumous subjects, Calc. 
c. 6, 8h. Patients with irritable skins, Sulph. 3, 8h. 

Simple Chii,bi.ains. — Agar, i, 3h.; Tanius'^, applied 
with brash, night and morning. If in girls with de- 
layed and scanty menses, Puis. 3, 6h. ; Tamils ^ ex- 
ternally. 

Inflamed. — Dusky red, much burning. Rhus t. 3, 6h. 
Application of Rhus ointment {Rhus t. ix, 3i-5 Vase- 
line gi.). Dark, purplish, Verai, v. 3, 3h.; applica- 



56 CHI — CHO 

tion of lotion of Verat. v. ( Ver. v. 4), 311., Spirit of 
Wine, 5ii-j ^^- ^d. Ji.) 

Broken. — Petrol. 3, gtt. i. 3h. Calend. ointment C^\. 
— Vaseline Ji.) to be kept applied. Suppurating, 
Hep. s. 6, 6h. 

Chilliness. See Shivering. 

Chlorosis. See Anaemia and Menstruation. 

Cholera Asiatica. — PrevexTiox. — Wear next the skin 
a plate of copper (6 in. by 4, for a man of large size; 
5 in. by 3 for a small man, and for a woman; 4 in. by 2 
for children). Let it be fastened round the waist by 
straps attached to longitudinal slits cut in the ends 
of the plate, which should be oval. Let the plate 
rest on the front of the abdominal wall, and let it be 
made slightly concave, so as to adapt itself to the 
shape of the body. The plate should be w^om day 
and night. It may be cleansed from time to time by 
rubbing with vinegar. 

In addition to this, if the person to be protected is 
much exposed to the disease, one drop of Cuprum 
aceticiun 3X should be given in a little water night 
and morning. 

PREI.IMIXARY Symptoms. — In cholera times, when- 
ever diarrhoea occurs, give Rubini's Tifietiire of 
Camphor^ five drops on a lump of sugar, every fifteen 
minutes to ever\' hour, according to the urgency of 
the symptoms, until the diarrhoea is completely re- 
moved. 

Should an attack come on without premonitors- 
diarrhoea, sudden coldness and lividity seizing the 
patient, give Rubini's Camphor, five drops every^ ten 
minutes. This may be given if there is diarrhoea at 
the same time, provided it is not excessive. 



CHO 57 

The patient should now be kept at rest, and as 
warm as possible, hot flannels being applied to the 
abdomen, and hot bottles to the feet. No solid food 
whatever should be given: water may be taken ad 
lihitiiui; and small pieces of ice may be given to 
suck. Milk is the best food, if it is tolerated. Move- 
ment is to be avoided. It is better to treat patients at 
their own homes if at all possible, as the very fact of 
moving a patient into hospital may make the differ- 
ence between death and recovery. 

If under Camphor r^a.Q.t\on does not com^ on, but, 
on the contrary, the patient becomes worse, vomiting 
and purging setting in with violent pains in the body, 
cold sweat on forehead, give Veratriun album i, gtt. 
i. lom. If the patient complains much of cramps 
with the vomiting and purging, Cuprum acet. 3X, 
gtt. i. lom. If the collapse deepens in spite of treat- 
ment, and the patient is in danger more from general 
depression than the discharges, Arsenicum alb. 3X, 
gtt. i. every ten minutes. When the collapse is most 
profound, respiration slow, deep, gasping, th 2 patient 
appearing dead in the intervals. Acid hydrocy. i, gtt. 
ii. lom. 

Cholera Infantum. — Watery diarrhoea, crying, com- 
plaining, biting fists, sleepless, Aeon. 3, ^h. 
Anxiety, crying, intolerance of milk, regurgitation 
of food an hour after taken, tendency to convulsions, 
^thus. cyn. 3, j^h. Deathly nausea, sudden and 
violent vomiting of, first, food, then water and 
mucus, then fluid, like rice-water, copious watery 
evacuations, prostration, Euphor. cor. 3, ^h. See 
also Diarrhoea. 

Cholerine— English Cholera — Cholera Nostras.— 

Bilious vomiting and bilious stools, Dios. v. 3, ^h. 
Violent cramps, Cupr. arsen. 6, X^- Blueness, 



58 CHO — CIR 

cramps, vomiting, watery diarrhoea, Verat. alb, 3, 
^h. Deathly nausea^ sudden and violent vomiting 
of, first, food, then water and mucus, then fluid like 
rice-water, copious watery evacuations, prostration, 
Eupho7\ cor, 3, ^h See also Diarrhoea. 

Chondritis. See Perichondritis; also Bones. 

Chordee. — This is generally an accompaniment of gonor- 
rhoea, and will yield to the treatment prescribed for 
that disease. If it should occur independently, or 
refuse to yield to the ordinary treatment, give Kali 
broin. gr. iii, at bedtime, to be repeated in an hour if 

necessary. See Gonorrhoea. 

Chorea. — Twitching, jerking, restless; in children with 
bluish faces and fingers; subject to chilblains; the 
most commonly indicated remedy. Agaric 3, 3h. If 
this fails to cause improvement within two weeks, 
Ver. V, 3, 3h.; and application to the spine, with the 
hand, night and morning, of a lotion consisting of 
equal parts of Veral. v. <i>, spirit of wine and water. 
When of emotional origin, or when accompanied by 
emotional symptoms, Ign. 3, 3h. When due to 
fright, and when the patient is frightened at animals 
and imaginary things. Strain. 3, 3h. Where there 
are symptoms of rheumatism, restlessness at night. 
Act. r. 3, 2h. If there is general debility, Arsen. 3, 
6h. In scrofulous children Calc. phos. 3, gr. ii. 8h, 
Inveterate cases, Cupr. acet, 3, 8h. [In all cases the 
patient should be well fed; cod-liver oil should be 
given to children when it is tolerated.] 

Cicatrix. — For the Rbmovai, of — Phyt, ix, 8h. In- 
flammation of, Ac. fluor. 6, git. ii. 8h. 

Chkloid, — Sil. 3; gr. iii. 8h. 

Circulation. — FekbIvE. — Frequent and regular open-air 



C I R — C O I. 59 

exercise; cold sponging and rapid friction. Great 
blueness of surface, Rhus t. 3, 8h. Coldness of the 
hands and feet, unhealthy complexion, Nat. rnur. 6, 

8h. See Heart, Liver, Anaemia. 

Cirrhosis. See Liver. 

Clap, See Gonorrhoea. 

Clavus. — In general, Kah earb, 6, ^h. Great impres- 
sionability of the senses, nervousness, restlessness, 
chilliness, agonising at height, and often passing off 
with copious flow of limpid urine, Ign. 3, ih. In 
spare, active, dark subjects, Nux v. 3, ih. In 
blonde persons, especially if occurring on left side of 
the head, Puis. 3, ih. In the intervals, the same 
medicine as indicated by the attack may be given 
thrice daily in the third attenuation, and proper diet 
and regimen prescribed if these are not what they 

should be. See also Headache. 

Clergyman's Sore Throat. ►$*<?<? Throat. 

Climacteric Suffering. See Change of Life. 

Coccygodynia (Pain a^t the Extreme Point of the 
Spine). — Drawing or bruised pain, Caust. 6, 8h. 
Sensation of a heavy load hanging on the end of coc- 
cyx, dragging the patient down, Ant. t. 6, 4h. Tear- 
ing, jerking, Cieuta v. i, 6h. Soreness on pressure, 
Silic. 6, 8h. Pain in, whilst sitting, aggravated by 
walking or touch, Kali bichr. 3X, gr. ii. 6h. 

Coecum. See Csecum. 

Cold. — Soon after the exposure to cold, whilst the chill 
is still present, Camph. Ix, gtt. ii., on sugar (or 
Camph. 6 pilules ii.) every 15 minutes until the chill 
passes off and glow succeeds. Some time after the 



6o COL 

exposure to cold, when the actual feeling of chill has 
to a large extent or entirely passed off, Aeon, i, yih., 
for six doses; afterwards every two hours. If coryza 
has already set in, sneezing and running from the 
nose, Euphras. ix, 2h. Cold fully established, thick, 
unirritating discharge, Merc. sol. 6, 3h. Thin, irri- 
tating discharge, Ars. 3, 2h. Catarrh, with inflamed 
swelling of the nose, which is painful; pressure on 
larynx; hoarseness. Hep. 6, 2h. Fluent, watery, 
acrid coryza; constriction in throat; tickling, dry 
cough; tight chest. Sang, i, 2h. Tightness at root 
of nose; tickling cough from inspiring cold air; con- 
stant sneezing, acrid coryza, better out of doors; 
chilly, AIL cep. 6, 2h. Thin, unirritating discharge, 
nose red and swollen, Kali iod. i x, 2h. ' ' Stuffy 
cold, ' ' nose blocked, but little discharge, tightness at 
the chest, Nux v. i — 3, 2h. Loss of smell with cold, 
Sul. I, 4h. Loss of taste with cold. Puis, i, 4h. 
Loss of taste and smell with cold, Mag. mur. 6, 4h. 

iNFivUKNZA Coi^D. — (i) Arsen. 3, 2h. (2) Nal. mur, 
6, 2h. If the bone pains are very distressing, Etipat, 
perfol. 3, 2h. 

Tendency to. — Nat. mur. 6, 8h., continued for one 
or two months. In women with too frequent and 
too profuse menstruation, Cale. c. 6, in the same way. 
See also Catarrh, Nasai.. 

Coldness. — Coldness of back, Aco 3, 2h. As if cold 
water running down the back, Arsen. 3, 2h. As if 
a lump of ice in lumbar region, Agar. 3, 2h. 

Colic. — With Diarrhoea, see Diarrhoea. Cutting colic 
relieved by pressure or bending double; sensation as 
if the intestines were being squeezed between two 
stones, diarrhoea, Coloc. 3, 20m. — 2h. Griping, 
drawing, bursting, or cutting pains; flatulent spasms, 



C O M — C O N 6i 

worse b}^ pressure, by doubling up, better by stand- 
ing erect and b}- moving about, Dioscor. 3, 20m. — 2h 
When a spot is as if griped w-ith the nails; when the 
transverse colon is distended like a pad, Bell, i, 
2om. — 2h. Flatulent colic when the flatus collects in 
several spots; intolerance of pain, aggravation at 
night and by warmth, Cham. 6, 20m. — ih. In 
young children, the pain relieved by firm pressure; 
pain coming on gradually and passing off gradually, 
Sia?i. 6, 2om. — ih. Flatulent colic in older children, 
with or mthout worms, Cina t, 20m — 2h. Flatulent 
colic accompanying menstruation, Cocc. i., 3, 20m. — 
ih. With obstinate constipation, Plumb, acel, 3, 
gr. ii. — 6, 2h. Flatulent colic in spare, dark subjects, 
with constipation, Nux v. i, J^h. With blueness, 
cold sweat on forehead, and symptoms of collapse, 
Verat alb. i, yi^i. 

From Lead — Opium ix, 2h. Should this fail, Almnen 
3, gr. iii.— 6, 3h. 

Coma must be treated according to the disease of which 
it is a s3'mptom. See Apoplexy, Sleep, Delirium, 
Fevers, &c. 

Coma Vigil.— ^^^^. 3> X^i- 

Concussion. See Brain, Spine, Bruises. 

Condylomata. — Thuja i or 30, 6h; Thuja 6 to be painted 
on the growths night and morning. If after a fort- 
night this fails to make much difference; or if, after 
causing some improvement, the improvement ceases, 
Ac. nit. II or 30, 6h.; and ointment of the Acid Ni- 
ti ate of Mercury (B. P.) may be applied night and 
morning. 

Congestion. See Brain, Liver, Lungs, &c. 



62 CON 

Conjunctivitis. See Eye, Infi^ammation of. 

Constipation. — in sedentary people, dark, spare; inef- 
fectual urging; frequent desire, but only very little, 
passes, Nux v. i — 30, 8h. After Niix^ if this is in- 
sufficient; in persons who are subject to skin erup- 
tions; who suffer from fainting spells, flushing of 
heat to the head, or sinking sensation at the pit of 
the stomach, especially at about 11 A. M. ; frequent 
ineffectual urging to stool, insufficient stool, sensa- 
tion as if something remained behind in rectum 
piles which bleed periodically, Sid, 3, Sh. Torpor 
of bowels, stool hard, large, dry, Biy. 3, 6h. Torpor 
of bowels; stool small, hard pieces, dark brown, Op. 
3, 6h. Very obstinate constipation, dry, lumpy stool; 
painless, or with severe colic and retraction of ab- 
domen, Plumb, acet. 3, gr. ii. — 6, 6h. Hard, scanty 
stool 5 painful in passing, burning in rectum, passage 
of blood, Ac. nit. i, 4h. Large, knott}^ stool, covered 
with white shreds of mucus, expelled T^-ith much 
effort; associated with delayed menses, Gi'aph. 6, 6h. 
Hard, knotty stool, w^ith or without blind piles, much 
pain in the back; sensation of fulness in rectum 
after stool; sensation in rectum as if full of small 
sticks, ^sc. h. I, 6h. Accumulation of faeces in 
rectum, Chi. i, 2h. Stool like sheep's dung; pain in 
region of liver, Magnes, ^tnur. 5, 6h. Stool tough, 
shin}^, knotty, like sheep's dung, oily; pressure in 
rectum as if faeces lodged in it. Canst. 5, gtt. ii. 4h. 
Stool hard, small, dry, crumbling, Zinc. met. 6, 4h. 
Black, pitchy stool, Zinc. tnur. 3, 4h. Stool retained, 
sensation as if rough faeces remained in rectum, feel- 
ing of constriction at anus arresting it; especialh^ in 
ill-nourished persons with unhealthy complexion; 
associated with deficient menses, Nat. m. 3, gr. ii. — 
6, 6h. Slow, insufficient stool; sensation of weight 
or ball in anus not relieved by stool, Sep. 6, 4h. 



CON 63 

With distension of the abdomen, flatulence passing 
downwards, water high-coloured, with deposit of li- 
thates, hard, difficult stool, Lye. 6, 6h. Dilated and 
paralysed rectum; lumpy stools, Aliunino. 6, 6h. 
No desire for stool; constipation, alternating with 
looseness of the bowels, Hydrast. i, 6h. Stool diffi 
cult to pass on account of hardness and size, Verat. 
a. 3, 6h. Palliatives : Persons who have been in the 
habit of taking purgatives and fear to leave them off, 
Sul. <l>, at bedtime. A glass of cold water drunk 
fasting will often suffice to ensure a good evacuation. 
Or a glass of cold water may be taken at bedtime; or, 
if cold water is not tolerated, hot water instead. Or 
this: a tablespoonful of coarse treacle put into a 
tumbler of water over night, and drunk by sips in the 
morning whilst dressing. In constipation in infants, 
manna used for sweetening their food is often of 
great service. See under DiKT — Infants. If other 
things fail, Hydrast. 4>, gtt. iii. in a wine-glassful of 
water, taken in the morning fasting, acts as a mild 
aperient. A sitz-bath every second night (65° — 75° 
F. ), ior five or ten minutes, the body and limbs being 
kept thoroughly warm during the time, is often of 
great assistance w^here there is torpor of the bowels. 
A cold water, or tepid water compress may be worn 
across the body at night. Whenever constipation is 
one of many S3^mptoms of disordered health, the 
medicines directed to the chief disorder will usually 
remove the constipation also: Spigelia in heart af- 
fections. Iris in migraine, Gels, in headaches. 

Consumption, Phthisis Pulmonalis, Tuberculosis Pul- 

monalis. — ThrkaTKNKD. — Acid dyspepsia, intoler- 
ance of milk, in subjects inclined to be fat, Calc. c. 6, 
6h.; the same in thin subjects, Calc. iod. 3X, 6h. 
Where rapid wasting is the most prominent symp 



64 CON 

torn, lod. 2x, 6h., or Bacillinumr^ 30, 100, or 200, 
three or lour globules once every one, two, or three 
weeks, according to Dr. Burnett's directions, the 
value of which I have amply confirmed, given alone 
or with indicated remedies in the interval will prove 
marvellously efficacious in all states of " consump- 
tiveness, " threatened consumption, or illness other 
than consumption in patients whose family is con- 
sumptive. A convenient way of dispensing Bacil- 
linum is to order four globules to be put into two 
grains of Sacch. Lact. and made into a powder 

Komniss is a most useful article of diet in this and 
subsequent stages of consumption; and it is some- 
thing more. Koumiss of mare's milk may be used 
in any stage, and will often be retained when nothing 
else will. If Koumiss of cow's milk (Jagielski) is 
used, begin with A, or full koumiss, No. 2. If there 
is constipation, give No. i instead of No. 2; and if 
there is tendency to diarrhoea give No. 3. If A is 
not tolerated, give B, which is less rich in the cheesy 
pari; of milk, and more rich in milk-sugar and the 
mineral salts; the numbers as indicated (by the 
bowel symptoms) for A stand good for all. When 
neither A nor B is tolerated, where there is consider- 
able hectic fever, C (or whey koumiss) is most in- 
dicated, and will often check the diarrhoea of the 
last stage of the disease, if No. 3 is given. Koumiss 
contains carbonic and lactic acids, and a small amount 
of alcohol; and to these it owes medicinal as well as 
digestive and food properties. 

Chronic Tubercui^ar Consumption ]P^oi.i.owing 
Chronic Pneumonia, Formation of Cavities in 
THE Lungs. — Bacillinum 30 — 200, may be given 
as directed above in almost all cases. It will not help 

*■ See Cure of Consumption by its ow7i Virus hy Dr. J. C. Burnett. 



CON 65 

all cases, and where no apparent benefit follows or 
where there is aggravation of symptoms it must be dis- 
continued. In general the most useful medicine is 
Ars. iod. 3X, gr. ii.; thrice daily, immediately after 
food. (This is apt to cause pains in the body, and 
even diarrhoea after a time, and then it should 
be omitted for a few days. I have tried higher attenu- 
tions, but have not found them satisfactory-. If the 
Ars. iod. does no good, and when it ceases to do 
good, a selection may be made from the following.) 
Chronic pneumonic phthisis ^dth tendency to bleed- 
ing, Calc. ars. 3X, gr.-iii. 8h In strumous subjects 
with tendency to enlarged tonsils, Calc. phos. 3x — 3, 
gr. iii. 8h. Vomiting, Kreas. 3, 6h. Stitching pains 
in the chest, cough between 2 and 3 A. M., Kal. c. 3, 
gr. ii. — 6, 2h. Chronic inflammation of small patch 
of lung with rusty expectoration, Phos 3, 2h. 
Chronic inflammation of a considerable portion of 
lung; with night-sweat, constipation, loaded urine, 
Lye. 6, 2h. Consolidation of lung, rattling of mucus 
in chest, hoarse cough, worse at night, profuse yellow^ 
expectoration. Hep. s. 6, 2h. Where the cough is 
worst in the morning, and there are cutting pains 
about the chest, pain between the shoulders, Bry. 3, 
2h. Where the cough is spasmodic, causing retch- 
ing and vomiting of food, Dros. 6, 2h. ; profuse per- 
spiration, abundant sputa, yellowish or green, of 
sweet taste, Stanmcni 6, 2h. Where the skin is 
eruptive; in gouty or rheumatic persons; sinking 
sensation at 11 A. M., hot fainty spells, Sul. 3, 4h 
{Sulphur should always be well indicated by the 
symptoms when given in cases of phthisis, and 
should never be continued beyond the time when 
these symptoms are well relieved.) 

Bleeding. — In "bleeding consumption" (Phthisis 
fiorida ). where there is a great deal of bleeding and 



66 CON 

very little to be made out on examining the chest, 
Ferr, acet, ix, gtt. ii. lom. during an attack; as a 
preventive, 8h. In bleeding, where there is active 
congestion, dry skin, and fever, Aeon. 3, lom. — ih 
according to urgency. Frequent bleedings of snial. 
amount, Phos. 3, 2h. Dry cough followed by spi. 
ting of blood, Acalyph. Iiid. ix, ^ — 2h. Florid. 
frothy blood without much cough, Millefol. ix — 30, 
Xh. Florid frothy blood with cough and tickling 
behind sternum, Ferr acet. ix, gtt. ii. lom. — ih. 
Dark or clotted blood, Ham. 3, }i\i. The same with 
cough and tickling behind sternum, especially if 
accompanied by nausea, Ipec. 3, ^h. For the pre- 
vention of haemorrhage the best treatment is that 
directed to the general state as indicated by the gen- 
eral phthisical symptoms. 

Hectic Fever. — In a general way, Arsen. iod. 3X. gr. 
ii. 8h., will keep this within bounds. If the fever is 
low and approaching typhoid, Baptis. i, 2h. Dry 
skin, restlessless, irritating cough. Aeon. 3, ih. 
\_Koumiss as advised above.] 

Perspirations. — lyike the hectic fever, perspirations 
are as a rule best controlled by the remedy most 
indicated by the general condition. When they are 
so profuse as to constitute the leading symptom, 
Jaborandi 3X, 2h. 

Acute Tubercular Consumption (Rapid Consump- 
tion). — In premonitory dyspepsia, Cale. e. 6, 6h. 
In actual disease, Cale, e. 6, 2h. The same remedies 
.as in chronic consumption, according to indications. 
For particular indications of cough and pain in the 

side, see Cough, Cliest and Pleurisy. 
Contusions. See Bruises. 
Convulsions. — Infantile (during the Seizure).— 



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Flushed face, prominent throbbing fontanelle, from 
whatever cause, Bell. 3, ^h. Pale face, sunken fon- 
tanelle, excitement without signs of congestion, Zinc, 
siilph 3, %\\. (If these characteristics are not prom- 
inently marked, the following indications wdll serve 
as guides.) During teething, in fretful children, 
green watery stools, Cham. 6, )l\i. From eating 
indigestible fruit, Nux v. 3, }i\i. With gastro-intes_ 
tinal disorder and great pain, anguish, intolerance of 
milk, ^Ihusa cyn. 3, jk^h. In whooping-cough, 
Cupr m. 6, X^- 

Prevention. — The above-named medicines, accord- 
ing to the indications given, at longer interv^als (four 
times a day). Diet and regimen must be attended 
to. In scrofulous and rickety children the consti- 
tutional remedies must be given, either alone or in 
alternation with any of the above. See Scrofula and 

Rickets. 

Cornea. See Eye. 

Corns. — Recent or Painfui,. — Ferr. picric 3, 6h. In- 
flamed or ulcerated, Acid. nil. i, 6h. Hydrastis 
ointment {Hydr. <^, 3j) Vaseline gj). 

Corpulence. — in addition to suitable regimen and diet, 
Phytolacca i5<frry 4> Tablets ii. gtt. 8h. If this fails 
to do good after a month's trial, give (i) Amm. 
brom. 3x, 8h., (2) Calc. c. 3, gr. ii. — 6, 8h , (3) Clac. 
Arsen. 3X, gr. i 8h. (A tablespoonful of lemon- 
juice in a little water, sweetened, may be taken 
three times a day if it does not disagree.) 

Coryza. ►S^^Cold, 

Cough.. — According to Generai, Characteristics. 
Shorty dry^ irritative cough; cough during sleep, 
Aco. '3, 2h. Spasmodic^ coming on in the night, 



68 COU 

\^;aking the patient from sleep, ending in bringing 
away a little phlegm, Ars. 3, 6h. Cough from tick- 
ling, as if from a feather in the throat or dust in the 
larynx; constant tickle under the middle of the 
sternum, causing a hacking cough; cough during and 
after eating, Calc. c. 6, 2h. Cough from rawness in 
larynx, worse at night in bed before falling asleep; 
violent spasmodic cough with copious expectoration 
of mucus, Sul. 3, 2h. Spasmodic cough coming on 
between 2 and 3 a. m., stitches in the chest, Kali c. 6, 
6h. Cough on waking, on moving about in the 
morning, some expectoration at first (sometimes 
blood}^, afterwards dry^ worse on entering a warm 
room, sharp pains in chest, Bry. 3, 2h. Dry hacki?ig 
cough from pharj^nofeal or lar^mgeal irritation, Alu- 
mina 6, 6h. Irrilalive laryngeal cough, worse even- 
ing and early night, paroxysmal^ heat and redness of 
face and sparkling eyes; provoked by tickling in 
larynx as if dust were at the back of it, compelling a 
hard dry cough; induced by exertion, lying down, or 
very deep respiration; feeling of soreness in larynx, 
as if internally hot and sore, this soreness is felt 
when pressing the larynx externally; oppression and 
heat in chest, dyspnoea. Bell, 3, 2h. Dry^ hollow^ 
hoarse cough in single shocks, or fits of coughing; 
with worm symptoms, Ci^ia 3, 4h. Dry cough, but 
with sensation as if something were in the trachea 
which might be raised, or comes partly up and then 
goes back again; provoked by tickling in trachea 
(below that of Bell. ) , induced by touching trachea, 
or pressing on it, or pressure of clothes, which the 
patient therefore loosens, or by throwing the head 
back, also by eating; occurring on awaking from 
sleep; accompanied by some hoarseness and sore 
throat, which shoots up into the ear, and by chronic 
tonsillitis with oily white granules, Lach. 6, 6h. 



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Cough dry or with scanty rusty sputa; night and 
day; provoked by tickHng in the trachea pretty low- 
down, and by a feeling of rawness and sorenes in 
trachea and bronchi; induced by a very deep in- 
spiration; accompanied and characterized by a 
hoarse barking sound, by rawness of trachea and 
whole chest, and by a peculiar and distressing weight 
across the chest; hoarseness, Phos. 3, 2h. Z>;;y cough 
in evening, provoked by tickling high in trachea, in 
\ow^ paroxysms, induced by speaking; provoking dis- 
charge of urine, voice almost gone^ trachea sore and 
raw, but not the chest, Caust. 6, 4h. Dry, short, and 
paroxys7nal cough or constant hack, in evening and 
night on going to bed; provoked by tickling in supra- 
sternal fossa; induced by pressure in that region and 
by inhaling a breath of cool air, by a deep inspiration, 
and by any variation in breathing; accompanied by 
great fatigue from coughing and by stitches through 
the left lung, Ruviex crisp. 6, 3h. Dry cough with 
acrid coryza and lachrymation; induced by tickling 
in larynx, and each cough seems as if it would split 
the larynx in two; patient cringes under the pain, 
All. cepa 6, 2h. Dty cough, with dyspnoea, from tick- 
ling high up in the throat; uninterrupted in the even- 
ing; provoked by speaking or stooping; increases 
more and more, and then stops [no soreness of larynx 
or fever {Bell.), not affected by respiration [Rmnex], 
not excited by pressure on trachea {Lach.)~\, Hep. s. 
6, 4h. Viole?it cough as if he would suffocate, end- 
ing in vomiting, afterwards a feeling as of a harvl 
body in the epigastrium; then spitting of blood, Hep. 
s. 6, 4h. Dry laryngo-tracheal cough, with hoarse- 
ness, induced by attempting to draw a long breath; 
accompanied by difficult inspiration, stitches in the 
lungs, and pain and burning behind the sternum, 
Brom. 12, 2h. Barking q:om^, with hacking and loss 



70 C O U 

of voicej Spong. 3, 2I1. Pains in larynx with desire to 
cough; smarting and lancinating pain in trachea; 
hoarseness; croupy cough; cough from tickling in 
throat, induced by effort to expand chest; increased 
by movement, lod. 3X, 2h. Chrojiic dry laryngeal 
cough with stinging and smarting as if a small ulcer 
in the larynx, generally on one side, Ac. nit. i — 12, 
2h. Chro7iic asthynatic cough, whether dry or moist; 
worse night and morning; w^ith constipation, Ac. 
nit. I — 12, 2h. Chi'onic catarrhal cough, mucus ex- 
pectoration, easy and profuse, Ant tart. 6, 3h. Dry 
cough even to vomiting, wdth anxious sweat at nights; 
cough with hoarseness, shaking the abdomen; tick- 
ling and soreness in trachea and chest; cough with 
raising of thick, yellow, lumpy, purulent expectora- 
tion, in large masses, offensive. Sit. 6, 4h. Catarrhal 
inflammatory cough, burning soreness from fauces 
dowm sternum, hoarseness, pains about the chest, 
Merc, sol. 6, 3h. Cough with excessive secretion; 
(with much pale urine), Scilla 3, 2h. Cough loose by 
day, wnth much mucus expectoration, dry and tick- 
ling on lying down at night. Puis. 3, 2h. Explosive 
cough with foetid expectoration and foetid breath, 
Caps. 3, 2h. Very noisy ^ dry, hard cough, in violent 
short bursts, coming from low^ down, shaking the 
w^hole body, Osmium 6, 2h. Violent cough with little 
or no expectoration, jarring the head, and straining 
the abdominal muscles; tickling in trachea, in mid- 
dle of sternum, provoking cough; cough induced by 
exertion; after eating; when lying on back; in early 
morning after midnight; tightness of breath, Nicx v. 
3, 2h Cough caused by itching in lar^-nx, hoarse, 
spasmodic; caused by a feeling as if vapour of sul- 
phur were in trachea; worse in evening and before 
midnight; worse b}^ cold and when eating or drink- 
ing, especially cold things; sputa greenish and tough, 



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or yellow and purulent; less often watery, offensive, 
Carb V. 6, 2I1. Irritative shaking cough of old peo- 
ple, Seneg. 3, 2I1. Dry night cough, Verbascum 4> 
2h. Dry night cough, constant when lying down, 
relieved by sitting up, Hyos. 3, 2h. Periodical dry 
cough, excited by itching, grating, tickling in throat 
and behind sternum; 171 short bouts, especially by ly- 
ing down, laughing or talking; w^orse at night, Coni. 
3, 2h. Cough waking the patient after two hours' 
sleep, Aral, racem. 3, 2h. Suffocative cough of 
children, waking them up in the middle of the night, 
Samb. 4>, gtt. i. ih. Spasmodic choking cough in 
nervous subjects, Ambra 6, 2h Whooping-cough; 
spasmodic, hysterical cough, " minute -gun cough," 
Corall. r., 6, 2h. Cough from tickling in the larynx, 
with vomiting of food, Di^os. 6, 2h. Spasmodic 
cough with catarrh, Ipec. 3, 2h. Incessant spasmodic 
cough threatening to tear the chest; excited by pe- 
culiar tickling in fauces which is brought on 
by a sense of suffocation in the throat, Lactuca 3, 
2h. Incessant dry irritative cough, excited by draw- 
ing the least cold air into the larynx, reading aloud 
or smoke, Menth. pip 3, 2h. Spas^nodic cough and 
dyspnoea in lymphatico- nervous constitutions; cough 
worse by day, Viola od. j, 2h. Stomach cough; tor- 
menting dry cough, and insufferable tickling in 
throat, robbing the patient of rest; cough in asth- 
matic subjects, Lobel 3, 2h. Stomach cough; worse 
when the stomach is empty, Bism. i, gr. iii., 3h. 

Cough According to Circumstancks. — On entering 
a warm room, Bry. 3, 2h. During and after eating, 
Calc. c. 6. 2h. During eating, Lach, 6, 2h. After 
eating, Nux v. 3, 2h. Caused by exertion. Bell. 3, 
2h. Excited by effort, Ipec. 3. 2h. 

Cough causing other Symptoms. — Causes headache, 



^2 C O U — C R A 

Nat. nt, 6, 2h. ; in occiput, Sul. 6, 2h.; stunning 
headache, ^thus. 3, 2h.; maddening, as if the skull 
would burst, Nux v. 3, ah.; pain of heart, Agar, i, 
2h.; expulsion of urine, (i) Caust. 6, 2h.; (2) Ferr. 
6, 2I1.; (3) Puis. 3, 2h. ; involuntary emission o^ 
urine, with tearing pain. Alumina 6, 2h; night 
cough with involuntary passing of urine, Colch. 3X, 
2h.; spasmodic dry cough, causing tears to come in 
eyes, and passing of urine, Caps. 3, 2h ; irritating 
cough, causing taste of blood in mouth, Amm. c. 3X, 
2h.; causing taste of blood in the mouth; cough aris- 
ing from pit of stomach by paroxysms, but not in 
the night, causing shattering in abdomen; and sen- 
sation of a lump in the chest, SuL 3, 2h. 

PECU1.IARITIES OF Coughs. — Cold expectoration, 
Coral. 6, 4h ; sensation as if air-passages full of 
smoke, Broin. 6, 4h ; painful sensation as of some- 
thing lodged in the chest to be coughed up, nothing 
comes up, and coughing aggravates, Abies n. 3X, 2h. 

See also Bronchitis, Throat, Trachea, Whooping- 
cough. 

Courses. See Menstruation. 

Cracks in Skin,— Hands. ^<?<? Hands, Chappkd. 

Nose. — Ulcetated nostrils, with stopped catarrh, 
Petr. 3, 6h.; vaseline locally. Scurf within nose, 
bleeding when blowing it, painful, disordered smell, 
Graph. 6, 6h. ; vaseline locally. 

IviPS. — Cracked and sore. Graph. 6, 6h. Cracked in 
centre, Nat. mur. 6, 6h. Painful cracks in corners 
of mouth, (i) Petrol. 3, 6h.; (2) Cund. <l>, 8h. (Vas- 
eline may be used locally at night in all cases.) 

Cramp.— In the Cai^ves. — From fatigue. Am. i, 2h. 



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From no special cause, coming on in the night, Nux 
V. 3, 8h., to be repeated in the night if necessary. 
Should this fail, Cicpr. met, 6, 8h. In the soles of 
the feet, Colch. 3, 4h. 

Critical Age. See Change of Life, Menstruation, 

Cessation of. 

Croup. — Spasmodic — Laryngismus Stridulus — Miu- 
IvAr's Asthma. — Pure spasm, without any cough, 
hoarseness, or signs of catarrh of the larynx. 
Moschus 3x, inhalations (a few drops of the tincture 
dropped into a small quantity of water, shaken, and 
held under the nose); internally, Ctcprum met. 6, 
every ten minutes. Application to throat of sponge 
wrung out of hot water. 
Preventive Treatment. — In strumous subjects 
Calc. c. 6, 8h. Children of convulsive tendency. 
Bell. 3, 8h. Nervous, jerky children, with tendency 
to chorea, Agar. 3, Sh. Where the disease has been 
brought on by fright, IgJiat. 3, 8h. [These remedies 
may be continued for one or two months at a time, 
and after an interval of a week or two resumed if 
deemed necessary. Cold sponging and friction in 
morning, and the administration of cod-liver oil, are 
useful aids.] 
CaTarrhai. (Catarrh of the Larynx with Spasm of the 
Glottis). — Hoarse cough with or without expectora- 
tion, suffocative symptoms, dry skin, restlessness, 
anxiety, fear; from exposure to dry air, Aco7i. 3, gtt. 
i , every ten minutes. After Aeon., dry hoarse bark- 
ing cough, with sawing sound, no loose rattle, worse 
before midnight, Spo?ig. 3, gtt. i. every ten minutes; 
application to the throat of sponge wrung out of 
hot water. Suffocating cough in infants, waking 
them in the middle of the night, accompanied by 
rough sibilant wheezing, but without true croup, 
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74 C R U — C Y A 

Samb. 4> — 30, gtt. I, %h. Rattling, choking cougli, 
child chokes with every coughing fit; coughs till he 
chokes: attack conies on or grows worse after mid- 
night, Hep. 6, lom. till relieved. See Laryngitis 
and Cough. 

Membranous. — Inspiration very difficult, larynx 
drawn down, child chokes whilst drinking, Brom. 
3x, T5m. Inhalations of steam from hot water into 
which a few drops of Bromine ix have been dropped: 
the child's bed should be surrounded by a tent, and 
the vapour conducted within. Tough, stringy, yel- 
lowish expectoration, which is brought up with diffi- 
culty, Kali bichrom. 6, j^h. Wheezing, sawing respi- 
ration, dry barking cough, especially in children 
with dark hair and eyes; child grasps throat with 
hand, lod. 3X, 15m. If the child lies with neck 
stretched out, head bent back, and gasping, Ant. t. 
6, X^' Spong. and Hepar, when the symptoms cor- 
respond to those described under last heading. If 
the prostration is great, Ars . 3, X^- 

Accompanying Diphtheria. — The symptoms as de- 
scribed under the remedies named in the two pre- 
ceding sections will decide the remedy to be chosen. 
The most commonly indicated is lod. 3X, )^h. Care 
must be taken not to raise child up into the 
sitting position if there is much prostration. See 
Diphtheria. 

Crusta Lactea. See Impetigo. 

Cuts, See Wounds. 

Cyanosis. — Congenital or idiopathic, Rhus t. 3, 6h. 
When from acquired heart disease, or when symp- 
tomatic of other disorders, the patient must be 
treated for the central disease. 



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Cyanche Tonsillaris. See Quinsy. 
Cystitis. See Bladder. 

Dandruff. — Dry scurf, Ars. 3, 6I1. Moist, Sepia, 6, 6h. 
See also Pityriasis. 

Deafness. See Ear. 

Debility. — (Where a symptom of still active disease, the 
disease itself must be dealt with first). Debility 
after acute disease; exhaustion after overwork or 
worry, Calc. phos. 3 gr. ii. 8h. Debilit}^ after acute 
disease, such as diphtheria or typhoid fever, pro- 
found prostration, chilliness, desire to lie down con- 
stantly, Psorin, 30, 4h. General weakness, tendency 
to faint, loss of appetite, Ars. iod. 3X, gr. ii. thrice 
daily after food, to be continued as long as improve- 
ment continues, and omitted temporarily should pain 
in the body and looseness of the bowels come on. 
Non-febrile debility, with blueness and coldness, 
Carb. V. 6, 8h. Debility, with flushing to head or 
face; tired feeling in brain, Ferr. phos. 3, gr. ii. 8h. 
Depression, weakness, ansemia, (i) Helon. $, 8h.; (2) 
with constipation; earthy complexion; palpitation, 
Nat. in. 6, 8h. Cardiac and general muscular de- 
pression and weakness, Verat. alb. 3, 6h. In fat, pale 
children, Calc. c. 6, 8h. In thin, rickety children, 
Silic. 6, 8h. From loss of blood or other animal 
fluids, China, ix, 6h. With emaciation, Iod. 3X, 4h. 
See also Anaemia. 

Nervous Debii^ity. — Ign. 3, 6h. Failure of mental 
powers, tendency to perspiration, weakness without 
irritability, after excesses, Ac. phos. ix — i. 3h. 
(Five drops of Ac. phos. ix may be taken in 
a tumbler of water as a beverage with meals). 
Loss of memory, apprehensive, A7iacar. 3, 4h. Un- 



76 D E ly — D E P 

conquerable drowsiness after meals, Nux mosch. 3, 

2I1 See Dyspepsia, Spermatorrlioea, &c. 

Delirium Tremens.— [Give the patient strong soup or 
beef -tea.] If there is much gastric disorder, vomit- 
ing of mucus, Ant, tart. 3X, %\i. In the early stage 
Nux V. r, %h.. After it has passed its height, Nux 
V. I, ih. At the height of the delirium, if it is 
furious, with starting eyes, Bell, ix, %\i. If it is 
low, muttering, Hyoscy. 1, X^- Vision of animals, 
Stram. 3, ^h. 

Delusions. — Things appear larger than they are, dis- 
tances greater, time longer, Cann. I. 3, 2h. Things 
appear smaller than they are. Plat. 6, 2h. 

Dengue. — First paroxysm, Acofi. i, ih, follow^ed, if neces- 
sary, by Rhus t. 3, ih. ; if bone pains very severe, 
Eupator, perfol, i, ih. Second paroxysm, 6'<?/5. i, 
ih., followed, if necessary, by Rhus t. 3, ih. 

Dentition. — Morbid. — In pale children of soft fibre, 
teeth late in appearing, Calc. phos. 3, gr. ii. 8h. In 
thin, irritable, cachectic children, extreme agitation 
and wakefulness whilst the teeth are being cut, the 
teeth often decaying as soon as they appear, Kreas. 
6, 8h. 

Disorders During. — Fever, restlessness, dry skin, 
Aeon. 3, 2h. Fretfulness, with sour, green, watery 
diarrhoea; flushing of one cheek, Cham. 6, 2h. Diar- 
rhoea, green stools, sour, Cale. c. 6, 2h., till relieved, 
then after each stool. Stools like chopped spinach, 
great irritability, Mag. c. 6, 2h. Diarrhoea, green 
stools, foetid, Silic. 6, 2h, till relieved, then after each 
stool. Great soreness of the gums, Merc. sol. 6, 2h. 

C0NVU1.S10NS. — Bell. I, X^- •5'(f(? Convulsions. 

Depression of Spirits and Melancholia —From grief 



DER — DIA 77 

or worr^^' or at the change of life, Ign. 3, 6h. Melan- 
choly, restlessness, irritability, anxiety, anguish, 
Ars. 3, 6h. Prostration, unappeasable restlessness, 
convulsive trembHng, Tarent. 3, 6h. Religious 
melancholy, with constipation. Plumb, acet. 6, 6h. 
Depression, with pain at the heart, Spigel. 3, 6h. 
Suicidal melancholia, Aur. met. 3, gr. iii. 8h. De- 
pression, timidity, taciturnity, aversion to society; 
frcm sexual causes, as enforced abstention, Con. 3, 
6h. Sadness during the menses; depression, with 
palpitation on lying down at night, or after food, 
Nat in. 6, 6h. Nymphomania, Plat. 3 — 6, 6h. 
Acute melancholia, Bell. 3, 3h. Melancholia after 
typus fever; and in girls at puberty. Hell. 3, 3h. 

Derbyshire Neck. See Goitre. 

Diabetes. — insipidus (profuse flow of colourless urine 
containing no sugar). Night and day, Scilla i, 3h. 
Chiefly in the night, Ac. phos. ix, 3h. ; failing this, 
Miirex purp. 6, 3h., or Uran. nit. 3X, gr. iii. — 30, 8h. 

Mei^i^itits (True diabetes, increased flow of urine con- 
taining sugar). — From nervous causes, Ac. phos. ix, 
gtt. iii. — 30, 8h. From digestive derangement, Uran, 
nit. 3x, gr. iii. 8h. With swollen ankles, Arg. met. 
3 gr. ii. — 30, 8h. In gouty persons, Nat. sulph. 3, gr. 
ii. 8h. If these fail — (i) Syzygium ix, gr. iii. 8h.; 
(2) Silica 3, gr. iii. 8h. From a fall, Arn. 3, 6h. 
[The proper diet v^dll be prescribed; see Diet. In 
extreme cases the patient may be put on diabetic 
koumiss exclusively. 

Diaphragm. — Simple myalgia, Act. r. i, 2h. Rheuma- 
tic inflammation, cutting pain on every breath, Bry. 
I, 2h. Acute but non-febrile rheumatism, Sticta put. 
I, 2h. Rheumatism, with constrictive sensation, 



78 D I A 

Cactus I, 2h. Hypochondriasis with pains in the 
diaphragm. Sta?ui. 3, gr. ii. Sh. 

Diarrhoea. — Summer Diarrhcea. — Frequent waters- 
stools with griping pains, Chi. i, ih Vomiting and 
purging, much cutting colic, prostration, watery- 
stools, J^erat. a. i, ih. Yellow or brown pappy or 
watery stools, after catarrh, much colic, Coloc. i, ih. 
Sudden, copious gushing stools, Ci'oton t. 3, ih. 
When the attack has been induced by wet and cold, 
Didc. T, ih. When there are bilious vomiting and 
evacuations. Iris z\ 1, ih. Before and after menses, 
Boris f. 3, 2h. See also below, under Chroxic and 
Special kinds of. 

Chroxic Diarrhcea. — Painless waters- stools, Chi. i, 
4h. Watery, black or yellow, acrid stools, Ars. 3, 

4h. See also beloii\ luider Special kixds of. 

Special kixds of. — Acute diarrhoea with deathly 
nausea and prostration, vomit at the smell or thought 
of food, Colch. I, ih. Abdomen seems filled with 
wind and water, which is explosively discharged, 
great weakness of sphincter, loss of confidence, 
Apocy. I, ih. Lienteria, Chi, i, 2h. Painless, grey- 
ish-white, watery, involuntary, Ac. phos. ix — 30, ih. 
White, stinking, liquid, in children; copious, watery, 
clear-colored, very foetid; urine high-coloured and 
strong-smelling, Ac. benz. 3X, 3h. Solid hard lumps 
in watery diarrhoea. Ant. crud. 6, 2h. In the morn- 
ing, from 2 A. M. to 10 A. M., ^-iolent urging felt in 
hypogastrium and rectum, uncertainty, patieuc can 
scarcely retain faeces. Aloes ^, ih. Morning diarrhoea, 
urgent, yellow, Sulph. 3, 2h. Painless, greenish- 
yellow diarrhoea, gushing, occurring every morning, 
Apis 3x, 2h. Morning diarrhoea, brown, watery, 
urgent, waking patient from sleep, Rumex c. 6, 2h. 
Yellow diarrhoea, between 4 and 5 a. m , Xuphat I. 3, 



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2h. Watery yellow stools, without pain, from 3 a. m. 
to 9 A. M , followed by sensation of weakness in abdo- 
men and especially in rectum, Podoph. 6, 2h. Diar- 
rhoea immediately after eating or drinking, sensation 
of weakness in rectum after, Podoph. 6, 2h Imme- 
diately after eating or drinki^ig with great pain in 
abdomen and tenesmus, stools fetid, at times bloody, 
Thro7nbid. 30,1 — 2h. Brown watery stools (2//<fr^<2/z;z^ 
or drinking, with much colic, Coloc. i, 2h. Brown 
stools immediately after eatings Ars. 3, 2h. Pappy 
stools after eating, Chi. i, 2h Diarrhoea 07i begin- 
ning to eat, Ferr. 6, 2h. Diarrhoea preceded by pro- 
lapse of rectum, Podoph. 6, 2h. Chalky offensive 
stools, Podoph. 6, 2h. Green watery diarrhoea, with 
grinding of teeth and rolling of the head (during 
dentition), Podoph 6, 2h. Dysenteric diarrhoea, 
with heat in the rectum, and tenesmus, Podoph. 6, 2h. 
Diarrhoea alternating with head symptoms, Podoph. 
6, 2h Diarrhoea only in the daytime. Petrol. 3, 2h. 
Passive mucous diarrhoea, with little pain, chiefly at 
night, Puis. 3, 2h. Mucous diarrhoea, green or green- 
ish-yellow, with griping, Ipec. 3, 2h. Sour-smelling 
diarrhoea, frothy, green, like the scum of a frog-pond, 
Mag. carb. 6, 2h. Green mucus, chopped white and 
yellow mucus, Cham, i or 6, 2h. Slimy, offensive, 
excoriating, of various colours, Merc. sol. 6, 2h. 
Slimy, blood-streaked, Merc. cor. 3, 2h. Diarrhoea 
in infants from artificial food disagreeing, vomiting 
and purging without actual inflammation, Nux v. 3, 
2h. Frequent faecal stools (sour), with colic and 
urging, Rheum, i, 2h. 

See also Cholera, Cholera Infantum and Cholera 
Nostras. 

Diet. — It is impossible to lay down rules to suit all cases: 
every individual case must be studied by itself. The 



8o DIE 

following hints may, however, serve as useful guides 
to the prescriber. 

In Hkai^th. — So long as digestion is performed without 
discomfort, and the bodily w^eight, strength, and 
activity maintained, the less people think about their 
diet the better. 

HoMCEOPATHic Dietary. — In the days when the 
higher dilutions were more largely given, patients 
under homoeopathic treatment were put on much 
more strict dietary rules than it is now the custom to 
enjoin. It is an observed fact that those who live 
exclusively on vegetable diet are more readily acted 
on by medicines than those who eat meat; and, in a 
general way, the simpler the dietary of a person is, 
the more amenable he is to the action of medicines. 
If the person under treatment lives plainly, and the 
disorder is not specially connected with the digestive 
system, no change need be made in the dietar3^ If 
the patient is not a simple liver, the following rules 
should be laid down: — Avoidance of all alcoholic 
drinks and tobacco; also strong tea and coffee. The 
latter are better replaced by plain w^arm milk or 
scalded milk (a cup one-half or two-thirds full of milk 
filled up w^ith boiling water). Cocoa made from the 
nibs, or cocoa shells, or the cocoa essences, are better 
than tea or coffee. Strong acids and pickles, strong 
spices, and very salt things and pastry, should be 
forbidden. There should be an inter^-al of at least 
five hours between the meals; and all eating and 
drinking between meals should be disallowed. For 
the rest, breakfast may consist of porridge of some 
kind with milk; toast, bread, butter, and bacon, eggs, 
or fish. Lunch: Soup, fish, a little meat, white or 
red, milk-pudding or stewed fruit, and ripe fruit. 
Dinner: A variation of lunch, only a little more sub- 



DIE 8i 

stantial. Among substitutes for meat, various dishes 
containing cheese, e. g., maccaroni cheese is the best. 
Cooked cheese is more digestible than raw cheese. 
Grated cheese added to soup improves its nutrient 
properties. After cheese, lentils, peas and haricot 
beans are the most valuable of nitrogenous foods. 

Infants. — Until infants are eight months old they 
should have nothing but their mothers' milk; or, 
failing that and a wet-nurse, the nearest substitute, 
cow's milk. As that is a little richer than women's 
milk, it is necessary to dilute it with one-eighth of 
water. Of course it should be warmed to blood-heat 
(roughly, ioo° F.) before it is given, but not boiled. 
The Aylesbury Dairy Company's artificial human 
milk is an excellent preparation. Carnrick's solu- 
ble food is one of the best of prepared foods The 
Swiss condensed milk agrees well with many infants. 
Asses' milk and mares' milk are less rich in solids 
than women's, and do not curdle. These can, there- 
fore, often be tolerated when cows' milk disagrees. 
Goats' milk is more rich than cows', and is therefore 
not so suitable to the digestion of infants; but is often 
very good for thin, weakly children. When all milk 
disagrees cream may be given diluted with twice its 
quantity of water. It may be sweetened with a little 
sugar, or, if there is constipation, with manna, and 
should be given lukewarm. This is very useful when 
weaning. 

After a child is eight months old, it should be par- 
tially weaned: and cow's milk and foods made with 
milk and rusks, baked flour, or nursery biscuits, 
should be added. An excellent food for infants is 
made by gently simmering groats in milk. A table- 
spoonful of groats is put into a vessel containing a 
pint of milk; this is then placed in a saucepan, or 
other vessel, containing water, which is allowed to 



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boil. When the milk has lost a quarter of its bulk, 
it should be strained, and is then ready to be given. 
The groats remaining behind make an excellent food 
for older children. At ten months it should be com- 
pletely weaned, and the same food given in increas- 
ing quantity. In the second year, as the teeth de- 
velop, solid food, such as bread and butter and milk 
pudding, may be given; also gravy with bread or 
potatoes, and later a little meat. 

CoRPUivENCY. — Avoid the following: — Fat of meat, 
butter, cream, sugar, sweets, pastry, puddings, fari- 
naceous articles — as corn-flour, rice, sago, potatoes, 
carrots, parsnips, beet-root, sweet ales, porter, stout, 
port wine, and all sweet wines. The following dietary 
is to be recommended: — Wheaten bread, especially 
brown bread; gluten biscuits; lean meat, poultry, 
game, eggs, green vegetables, succulent fruits; milk 
only sparingly. 

Thinness; and Tkndkncy to, or Actual Presence: 
OF, Consumption.— Where it is well borne, cod- 
liver oil, beginning with a teaspoonful, immediately 
after meals; fat meats, butter, cream, milk, cocoa, 
chocolate, bread, potatoes, farinaceous foods, oatmeal 
porridge, sweets, a preparation of suet and milk 
(one-quarter of a pound mutton suet cut fine and 
placed in two pints of milk, this to be placed in a 
vessel of water and simmered down to one pint, the 
fat being skimmed off on rising) is often liked and 
well borne when cod-liver oil cannot be taken, and is 
especially valuable in consumptive cases. 

Fevers. — Water gruel is the ideal fever diet, but in 
these artificial days scarcely anybody likes it. In 
the fevers of short duration, as febricula, simple 
scarlatina, measles, and German measles, a liberal 
supply of barley-water and plain water will often 



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suffice till the fever is gone, and the stomach able to 
digest other food. Where the fever is nior^ pro- 
longed, as in the graver varieties of scarlatina and 
measles, and in typhus and typhoid, it is necessary 
to sustain the patient's strength. Here milk is the 
chief stay. In typhoid and scarlet fevers, since the 
milk may have been the vehicle of contagion, it is 
well to have it boiled. It is also better boiled for 
another reason — it does not curdle in the stomach. 
Otherwise it may be taken as the patient likes it best; 
and when it is not tolerated plain, one-sixth lime 
water, or one-half soda-water, will often make it ac- 
ceptable. Whey, Whey Koumiss, No. 2 (Aylesbury), 
and mares' koumiss, are excellent forms to give it 
in, if not easily borne plain. If the patient will take 
half a pint at a time, he may be allowed to go two 
hours without being again fed; if he takes less, he 
must be fed oftener. Milk being the basis of diet in 
continued fevers, gruel may be given in alternation; 
also beef tea — Brand's being one of the best manu- 
factured, and homemade beef-tea being the best of 
all — mutton, veal, or chicken broth, calves '-foot 
jelly; water and barley-water being given as much 
as the patient likes. The danger of over-feeding 
fever cases must be guarded against, as well as the 
opposite, since it is only what the patient digests that 
does him good, and not all that he can be made to 
swallow. During convalescence especial care mast 
be had in typhoid not to allow the patient vSolid food 
until the temperature has been for some days normal 
night and morning. Sago, tapioca, and puddings of 
that kind, may be first given, then bread and bul'ter, 
white fish, white meat, until the usual diet is gradu- 
ally reached. 

In Bronchiai, AffkcTions. — Hot milk in some saline 
water. 



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In Dyspepsia. — Toast, stale bread, white fish, chicken, 
game, stewed mutton, floury potatoes, and rice may 
be taken; vegetables generally to be avoided. Of 
ripe fruits, grapes are the best. An egg broken into 
a wineglass, and swallowed whole with a little 
vinegar, pepper, or a tablespoon ful of wine, is a sus- 
taining and easily digested form of food. Peptonized 
foods, and the various preparations of pepsine, are 
of temporar}^ value, but should not be relied on for 
long, Bullock's Acid Glycerine of Pepsine — a tea- 
spoonful in a tablespoonful of hot water, drunk in 
the middle of a meal — is often helpful here. 

UI.CER OF THE STOMACH. — Milk in some form or other, 
if tolerated, should be the chief if not the only diet. 
Koumiss. (Where there is constipation, Xo. i of 
either A, B, or C; where there is looseness of the 
b 'Wels, No. 3; and where they are regular, Xo. 2. 
Where it is well borne, A or " full " koumiss is the 
best, as it is the richest.) If milk is not tolerated 
water gruel, meat extracts, nutrient suppositories. 

Dysentery. — Milk, rice, eggs, white fish, and white 
flesh. Salted and dried meats, fruits and vegetables, 
should be avoided. Koumiss is often of service here. 
Ulmi cortex (slippery elm), used for thickening milk, 
is an excellent preparation. In extreme cases, 
patients may be kept alive on wine alone when the 
stomach will retain nothing else. Claret is the best 
in this country, and in wine-gTowang countries the 
ordinery table-wine. Eight ounces may be taken 
daily, as much as two or three ounces being given at 
a time, and extremely slowly. Rice-milk — milk hav- 
ing had rice boiled in it for two or three hours, and 
then strained — may after\^'ards be given as well. A 
teacupful may be given two hours after the wine. 
Great care is required in returning to solid food, and 



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the importunities of patients must be strenuously re- 
sisted. 

DiARRHCEjA IN CHII.DRKN, — Mares' or asses' milk or 
koumiss, or whey koumiss No. 3. 

Gout. — Meat to be taken very sparingly; wines and 
malt liquors to be avoided altogether. 

BrighT's Disease. — Absolute skim-milk dietary; or a 
diet which is almost entirely derived from the vege- 
table kingdom. (Eight to ten-grain doses of Citrate 
of Potash, in a wnne glass of water, two or three times 
a day, facilitate the action of the kidneys when skim 
milk-diet is being used. When the tongue becomes 
slimy a few grains of salt wnll put it right.) Skim- 
milk diet may be persevered wnth for a short time; 
but if the strength runs down under this, a more 
liberal diet must be given. It must not be forgotten 
that it is quite possible to get rid of the albumen from 
the urine and starve the patient at the same time. 

Diabetes. — Gluten bread, green vegetables, cream, 
butter, meat with fat; tea and coffee may be taken, 
and saccharine, mannite or glycerine used to sweeten 
them if necessary. Sugar-containing and starchy 
foods to be avoided. Sucking ice will relieve thirst, 
and rinsing the mouth with iced water will be as re- 
freshing as a deep draught. 

IviTHic Acid Diathesis and Tendency to Stone in 
THE Bi^ADDER. — Avoid milk, red meat, rich fish, 
sugar, starchy food, fruits (except those named 
below), potatoes, tea, coffee, beer, wines or spirits. 
The dietary to consist of plain cocoa w- ithout milk or 
sugar; stale bread, white fish, bacon, eggs, bird 
(chi:ken or game), apples, tomatoes, and lemons. 

Syphii^is. — Alcohol and tobacco to be strictly avoided; 



86 DIP 

in extreme cases a vegetarian dietary must be en- 
joined. 

Diplopia. See Eyes: Sight. 

Diphtheria, — True, malignant, membranous diphtheria, 
Merc, cyan. 6 — 30, every hour. At the same time the 
throat may be cleansed from time to time with a wash 
of Phytol. 4> (5 drops to the ounce), a small sponge, 
fixed in a handle, sold by chemists, being the best 
means. [A teaspoonful of yeast may be given every 
two or three hours.] This treatment alone will suffice 
for the great majority of attacks. If this does not 
control it, Ecchin. 6, gtt. i— x, i — 2h. When there 
is oedema of throat. Apis. 3X, every hour. Air- 
passages involved and the croup symptoms becoming 
worse, lod. i, ih. {see Croup). Great prostration, 
the constitutional symptoms predominating much 
over the amount of local affection; beginning on left 
side and spreading to right, Lack. 6, ih. When the 
affection begins on right side and spreads to the left, 
Lye. 6 — 30, ih, Changing from side to side, Lac. can. 
30 — 200, I — 2h. When prostration is extreme, Ars. 
3, every ten minutes, will often restore the patient. 
The greatest care must be taken not to raise the 
patient from the recumbent position, as that is often 
of itself sufficient to induce fatal syncope. [When 
tracheotomy has bee a perform rd, the tube and the 
trachea should be cleaned out from time to time with 
a feather dipped in a solution of boracic acid (gr. 
viii. — 5j-)- Steam from a kettle containing a few 
drops of kreasote in the water may be kept playing 
within the tent.] 

ScARi^ATiNAi, Diphtheria. — The treatment ih general 
is the sama as above; if, however, there is much 
swelling of the external glands, Merc, bin, 3X, gr. i. 



D I S — D R O 87 

2h. ; the throat being cleansed, if necessary, with 
Phytolacca gargle, as above. 

Fe:vkrish Diphthe^ria. — With high fever, pains in 
the back and limb. , but no prostration, Phyt. ix, ih. 
with the local application of Phytolacca as above. 

After-Effects. — Weakness, Psorin, 30, 4h. Paraly- 
sis, Gels. 1 , 3h. Of vocal cords or bladder, Caust. 30, 
2 — 4h. Deafness, Ac. mur. i, 2h. 

Distension. — After a meal with desire to loosen the 
clothes. Pills. 3, 4h. Flatulent distension of the 
upper part of the body, flatulence passing upwards, 
if at all, Carb, v. 6, 6h. Flatulent distension of the 
lower part of the body, flatulence passing downwards, 
Lye. 6, 6h. 

See also Flatulence. 

Dizziness. See Vertigo. 

Dreams. See Nightmare, Sleep. 

Dropsy. — Simple, acute, febrile dropsy, Aeon, i, 2h. 
Acute febrile dropsy wdth absence of thirst. Apis 3X, 
2h. tjnabsorbed effusions after inflammation of serous 
cavities, absence of thirst. Apis 3X, 2I1. Dropsy of 
incipient Bright's disease. Apis 3X, 2h. Dropsy after 
scarlatina, with no albumen in the urine and no 
thirst, Apis 3X, 2h. Dropsy after scarlatina, with 
albumen in the urine, thirst, Ars. 3, 2h. Dropsy 
with haemorrhage from the kidneys, Tereb. ix, 2h. 
Acute dropsical swellings with suppression of urine, 
Scilla I, 2h.. Dropsy of leucocythsemia, aggravated 
by 1 atliing, Calc. c. 6, 4h. Cerebral dropsy, Hell, n 
3, ih. Dropsy with dark, scanty urine. Hell. n. 
3, 2I1. As a general remedy for dropsy, anasarca, 
hydrocephalus, hydrotliorax, ascites, Apocy. cannab. 



88 DRO — DYS 

^ — 3x, gtt. V. 2h. Dropsy from disease of the liver, 
Apocy, cannab. ^ — 3x, gtt. v. 3h. (This will relieve 
the dropsy frequently without remedying the disease 
of the liver. This remedy must be given carefully. 
In sensitive patients the ^ tincture will sometimes 
produce vomiting and symptoms of collapse. \ Dropsy 
from organic disease of the heart, Ars. iod. 3X, gr. 
iii. after meals. From degenerated heart muscle with 
or without valvular disease; small, frequent, irregular 
pulse, dyspnoea; burning in gullet or stomach, nausea, 
vomiting; diarrhoea, Stroph, 4, gtt i — v — 3, 4h If 
the pulse is feeble, irregular, fluttering, Digit, i, 2h. 

Drowsiness. See Sleep. 

Duodenum, Infi^ammation of. — Arsen, 3, 3h. If this 
fails after forty-eight hours, Podopk. 6, 3h. 

UiyCKR OF. — Uran. 7iit. 3X, gr. ii. 3h. From burns, 
Kali bichr. 3X, 3h. 

Dysentery. — Begin in general with Merc, cor, 3, every 
hour. If there is much colic relieved by bending 
double, Coloc, i, ih Should these fail within two 
days to effect great improvement, the following may 
be given as indicated: Autumnal dysentei^^, with 
fatiguing tenesmus, worse at night, Siil. 3, gr. ii. 3h. 
Heat, rawness, soreness in rectum with prolapse, 
Aloe 3, 2h Burning and tickling in the rectum, 
tenesmus, Ac. nit. i, 3h. Stool after all food or 
drink, much abdominal pain and straining, 1 hrombid. 
30, I — 2h. Low typhous condition, Rhus tox. i, 2h. 
See also Diarrhoea for particular indications Tenes- 
mus after dysentery, enemata of linseed tea, Nux v, 
I, 2h After these, Lil. tig. 30, 2h. 

Dysmenorrhoea. See Menstruation, Painfui,. 
Dyspepsia (Indigestion). — From indigestible food. 



D Y S 89 

tongue brown at the back, cramping or spasmodic 
pain, flatulence, vomiting, constipation; dyspepsia of 
drunkards, Nux v. 3, 3h Flatulent dyspepsia, great 
belching of wind, cutting pains in the chest, acidity, 
loose bowels, Ca^'b v. 6, 3h. Feeling as of a stone at 
the stomach, sharp pain going through from epigas- 
trium to the back of the chest, pain between the 
shoulders, bilious vomiting, pain across the fore- 
head, white tongue, constipation, Bry. i, 2h. Crav- 
ing for meat, pickles, and other coarse food; gnaw- 
ing, hungry, faint feeling at epigastrium, Abies 
Canad. 3X, 4h. Sensation of undigested hard-boiled 
^%% in the stomach; constriction at lower end of 
oesophagus; sensation as of something lodged in the 
chest to be coughed up, but nothing does come up, 
and coughing only aggravates; loss of appetite in 
mornings, great cra\T.ng for food at noon and night, 
Abies nigra 3X, 4h. Bilious dyspepsia with great 
irritability and spasms, Cham. ^, gtt, i., frequently. 
(Put about twenty drops of the medicine in a 
tumbler of hot water, and let the patient drink it in 
sips. ) Bilious vomiting, black stools, dull pain in fore- 
head, and as if a band were tied across it, Lept. i, 3h. 
Pale flabby tongue, depraved taste, foul breath, 
light stools, depression of spirits, Merc. sol. 6, 3h. 
Vomiting from chronic catarrh of the stomach, tongue 
thick yellow coat, red beneath; in beer drinkers; 
weight rather than pain after food, alternation of 
gastric symptoms with rheumatisii:, Kali bichr. 3X, 
3h. Ravenous hunger, white-coated tongue, heart- 
burn; waterbrash; milk disagrees; swelling of epi- 
gastrium, tight clothes unbearable; abdomen dis- 
tended and hard; offensive, white stools, Calc. carb. 
6, 6h. Dry, sore tongue, white; fatty and acid 
risings; nausea on every inward emotion; constant 
feeling as if the stomach were filled vnth water; 



90 D Y vS 

great sensitiveness of epigastrium; burning and stick- 
ing pain in liver; great distension of abdomen after 
eating a little; stitches in the chest; sick headache, 
Kali c. 6, 6h. Yellowish white coating of tongue, it 
feels burnt; longing for indefinite things; for spiced 
food; offensive eructations; nausea not relieved by 
vomiting; salivation; bitter vomiting with headache, 
burning, pressure or empty feeling at stomach, sore- 
ness in epigastrium, Sang. c. 3, 6h. Tongue blistered, 
dry, burning when eating; bitter taste; loss of taste; 
loss of all desire for tobacco in smokers; salivation; 
intense thirst ; waterbrash; heartburn; heart-distress, 
palpitation, throbbing in epigastrium after food; 
"swashing" and fermentation in abdomen; consti- 
pation with hard, dry, unsatisfactory stools, feeling 
as if part remained behind, Nat. i^mir. 6, 6h. From 
eating fat food; mucous derangement, thickly coated, 
moist white tongue, nausea with little vomiting, 
heartburn, absence of much pain, feeling of disten- 
sion, clothes have to be loosened, bowels loose or 
regular, Puis. 3, 3h. Tongue milky-white, eructa- 
tion of wind and fluid tasting of food taken, Ant. 
crud. 6, 8h. Milky- white tongue, nausea, vcmiting, 
prostration, Ant. tart. 6, 8h. Waterbrash, tongue 
coated white, flatulent distension of bowels, bor- 
borygmi, cannot bear the pressure of the clothes, 
constipation, gravelly urine, great sleepiness after 
dinner. Lye. 6, 4h. Sodden-looking face, yellow 
slimy tongue, sour or putrid eructation, " goneness " 
after meals, alternate diarrhoea and constipation, 
Hydrast. i, 3h. Vomiting, acute dyspepsia, great 
flatulent distension, Ac. carbol. 3, 2h. Heartburn, 
flatulence coming away easily, excess of acid, heart's 
action disturbed by the stomach disorder, Aig. n. 6, 
3h. Deficiency of gastric juice. Alumina 6, 3h. 
Irritative dyspepsia, red tongue, loose bowels, fever, 
irritability, faintness, Ars, 3, 2h. Sense of weakness 



DYS — EAR 91 

and oppression at epigastrium, oppression at the 
chest, acidity with heartburn and lateritious urine, 
lump in the throat -pit, impeding respiration and 
swallowing; "stomach cough," Lobel. 3, 2h. In- 
ability to digest milk; vomiting of curdled milk im- 
mediately after taking it, ALihus, 3, 4h. Symptoms 
disappear during eating, and return in two hours, 
Anac I, 2h. For weak digestion Bullock's Acid 
Glycerijie of Pepshie is often temporarily useful. A 
teaspoonful to be taken in half a wineglassful of hot 
water in the middle of a meal. See Diet, Eructa- 
tions, StomacJi. 

Dysphagia. See Swallowing, Difficui^t. 

Dyspnoea. 'See Asthma, Croup, Heart, &c. 

Dysuria. See Urination. 

Ear. — ExTBRNAi,, Infi^ammation of. — Krysipelatous, 
Bell. 3, 2h. Erysipelatous and vesicular, Rhus tox, 
3, 2h. With much swelling, Apis 3X, 2h. 

Bcze:ma of. — Acute, Rhus lox. 3, 2h. If this fails 
within two or three days to effect improvement, 
Croton 3, 2h. If both these fail, Mezer. i, 2h. 
Chronic, Bovisla 6, 8h, After this Arsen. 3, 4h. 
Behind the ear, Graphiles 6, 6h. ; locally, glycerole 
of tannic acid {Ac. tan. gi. Glycer. giv., rubbed to- 
gether in a mortar, then heated until dissolved) may 
be used. If this fails to cause improvement in a 
fortnight, Petrol 3, 6h. ; locally, vaseline. 

G1.AND Behind, Infi^ammation of. — (i) Caps. 3, 2h. 
(2) BelL 3, 2h. 

BxTERNAi, Orifice, Infi^ammation of. — Aeon. 3, 
ih., until the pain is relieved, then less frequently. 
Should there be no relief within five hours give BelL 



92 EAR 

3, ih., to be followed, if necessary, by Merc. soL 6, 
ih Pustular inflammation, minute boils: (i) Cal- 
carea picrata^ 3, gtt. ii 2h. ; a plug of cotton wool 
saturated with glycerine will ofien allay the pain; 
or the meatus may be painted with a solution of 
Hydrochlorate of Cocame gr. v. to the gi. of distilled 
water). (2) Bell. 3, 2h.; external measures as above. 
Tendency to pustules in the ear, Sul. 3, Sh Chronic 
inflammation with blocking of the canal; (i) Graph. 
6, 8h ; locally, application of a solution of Nitrate of 
Silver^ one grain to the ounce (2) Ferr. phos. 3, gr. 
ii. 8h If there is exudation, Kali mur 3, gr. ii. 8h. 

M1DD1.K Ear (Tympanic Cavity), Infi^ammation 
OF. — After exposure to dry cold, at the beginning, 
pain, restlessness, anxiety, Aeon. 3, y^h..-^ Plantago $, 
diluted with an equal quantity of warm water, to be 
dropped into the ear every ten minutes or less often, 
according to urgency, a little cotton wool being 
placed in the orifice of the ear after each application. 
After Aeon., or when the local affection is decided, 
the pain almost making the patient beat his head 
against the wall, Merc. s. 6, ><h. Should the pain 
not yield readily, Plantago ^, ih., and locally. Jerk- 
ing, tearing pains as if something w^ould be pressed 
out; external ear swelling, hot; pains through whole 
side of face, Puis 3, >^h. When the mastoid cells 
are involved. Caps 3, ^^h. When there is distinct 
suppuration around the mastoid cells a free incision 
should be made. Chronic inflammation, see Dis- 
charge:. 

Discharge: from — Abnormal accumulation of wax: 
let the wax be softened by dropping into the ears 
pure olive oil for two or three nights, and then gently 
syringe with water at blood-heat. Occasional drop- 
ping in of oil will prevent the hardening of wax and 



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facilitate its natural discharge when there is a 
tendency to accumulation. In chronic purulent dis- 
charge from the ear, whether depending on chronic 
inflamaiation of the middle ear or due to other 
causes, the following courses of treatment may be 
adopted. Precise indications cannot be given, and 
they are therefore arranged in the order of the prob- 
ability of their general usefulness. They should be 
tried for periods of not less than three weeks before 
being changed, and should be continued as long as 
there is improvement. The discharge should be 
allowed to flow freely from the ear at night. The 
local application should be used at bed-time, and the 
ear washed with plain warm water in the morning: — 
(i) Kali mur. 3, gr. ii. 6h. {Kali ynuraticum is the 
chloride of potassium, not the chlorate; it is one 
of Schiissler's tissue remedies.) (2) Borax 3, 6h. ; 
about six grains of finely powdered boracic acid to 
be blown into the ear at bedtime; [in place of the 
pure boracic acid, a mixture of boracic acid, tincture 
of Plantago, and sugar of milk may be used: 
thoroughly moisten a quantity of sugar of milk with 
PI intago ^\ triturate in a m^rcar gradually, adding 
as much boracic acid as there is of sugar of milk. 
Triturate until the powder is dry]. (3) Hydrast. i, 
6h. ; glycerole of Hydrastis {Hydrast <l>, eight drops 
to glycerine half an ounce), to be dropped into the 
ear evary night. (4) H^par. siil. 6, 8h. (5) Dis- 
charging pus, Merc, sol 6, 8h.; a very dilute ointment 
of Acid Nitrate of Mercury (fifteen grains of the 
Nitrate of Mercury ointment of the British Pharma- 
copoeia to half an ounce of vaseline) may be applied 
to the ear every night. — (N. B In all inflammatory 
and catarrhal ear affections the teeth should be 
examined; decayed teeth will often cause trouble 
sympathetically in the ears. Some of the plates for 



94 EAR — EC C 

false teeth made by dentists contain mercury, and in 
sensitive persons these may occasion disorders of the 
ears and hearing. ) 

P01.YPUS. — In strumous subjects, Calc, c. 6, 8h. In 
others, Thuja 30, 6h. ; the polypus may be painted 
with the mother- tincture of Thuja every night. If 
these measures fail, Ac. nit. 6, 6h. 

Deai^ness, — From blocking of the Eustachian tube, 
Merc. sol. 3, gr. iii. — 6, 3h. If it does not yield after 
a week of this, Hydrast. i, 3h. After this Mezer. 
I, 3h. Deafness from a blow, Chin, sulph. 3X, 3h. 
Deafness, with roaring or thundering noises in the 
ear, the hearing being better in a noise, Gj^aph. 
3, gr. ii. — 6, 8h. Deafness, with noises and vertigo 
(Meniere's disease). Sod. salicyl. 3X — 3, 6h. After this. 
Chin. I, 6h. Deafness, with cold sensation in abdo- 
men; noises in the ear on coughing; intolerance of 
music, which aggravates the cough, Amb^^a. 3, 4h. 
I^ong lasting deafness, discharge from the ears, Elaps 
3, 4h. Deafness as if the ears were stopped, Mang. 
6, 4h. Deafness accompanying a morbid condition 
of the blood or blood-vessels (''Vascular Deafness " 
of Cooper) : (i) Ferrum phos. 3, gr. ii. t. d. (2) 
Feryum picric. 3X, gr. ii. 8h. See also medicines 
recommended for Ansemla. 

Earache. — From cold. Aeon. 3, ih. After Aeon., Puis. 
3, ih. Intolerance of the pain, aggravation by 
warmth and at night, Cham. 6, ih. 
lyocally, equal parts of Plantago ^ and water, warmed, 
may be dropped into the ear every hour until the 
pain is relieved 

Ecchymosis (Effusion of B1.00D within the Tissues 
AS IN A Bruise).— From injury, Am i, 2h; locally, 
if the skin is unbroken, arnica lotion {Am. 4>, gtt. v. 



ECT — ECZ 95 

to the ounce). See also Braise. Isolated spots of 
effusion, appearance of a bruise, Ani. i, 2h.; more 
general, Phos. 3, 2I1. See also Purpura. 

Ecthyma.— (I ) Ant tart, 6, 3I1. {2)Juglans reg . 3, 3h. 
(3) Merc sol 6, 3h. 

Eczema. — Simple, acute, general, or local, Rhus ven, 
3, 6h. [When the eczema is general, an absolute 
milk diet is of great assistance to aid the cure. In 
giving Rhus in skin diseases it is necessary to be 
prepared for aggravations. Should the skin become 
worse, the medicine should not be changed, but a 
single dose of a higher dilution (30) of the same 
medicine should be given and the result waited for. 
As local applications, bran-baths (four pounds of bran 
boiled with a little carbonate of soda in one gallon 
of water, the liquor after straining to be added to a 
sufficient quantity of water to make a bath), and 
where the affection is local, bran-water packs are 
useful; a solution of Borax, twenty grains to the 
pint; vaseline, when an ointment is required. Soft 
water should be used for washing. When crusts 
form, a linseed poultice should be applied to remove 
them.] Dry, irritative eczema, Alumina 5, 4h. 
Kczema of backs of hands (bakers' and grocers' itch), 
Bovista 6, 6h. Eczema of scalp, Oleander 6, 6h. Of 
face and genitals, much itching, Croton 3, 6h. Face; 
genitals; anus; severe continued itching, and after 
rubbing, soreness, Ant. crud. 6, 6h. Palms of hands. 
Graph, 6, 6h Eczema of chin in males, Cicut. v. 3, 4h. 

Chronic Kcze:ma. — Rather dry than weeping, Ars. 3, 
6h. Dry, very irritable, gouty eczema, Alumina 6, 
4h. Weeping, Merc. cor. 3, 6h. Bloody cracks, 
scanty discharge, Petrol. 3, 6h Oozing of glutinous 
discharge; eczema behind the ears, Graph. 6, 6h. 
Inveterate eczema, Hep. s. 6, 6h. 



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Impetiginous Eczema (Pustui^ar) Eczema.— i^y^^/^ 
ven. 3, 6h. In scrofulous children, Merc. c. 3, 6h. 
In chronic cases, Hep. s. 6, 6h. 

Eczema Rubrum. — (i) Rhus ven. 3, 6h. (2) Petrol. 
3, 8h.; vaseline locally. (3) ^r^. 3, 8h. 

EczHMA Capitis (Scai,i,ed Head, Mii,k Crust). — 
The same remedies are useful as for simple eczema, 
but more particularly — (i) Viola trie, i, 6h,; (2) 
Vinca minor i, 6h.; a glycerole of Vinca m. <l> (a 
drachm to the ounce of glycerine) to be applied 
locally. When more chronic — (i) Sepia 6, 6h.; (2) 
Hepar 6, 6h. Dry, Lye. 6, 6h. 

Eczema Marginatum. — This is a parasitic disease, 
and is best treated by Sul. 3, 6h., and an application 
of Sulphur ointment. 

Elephantiasis Arabum.—( Hypertrophy of the skin and 
areolar tissues of the lower extremities and scrotum, 
due to plugging of the lymphatics, and attended with 
fever and depraved nutrition), (i) Hydrocot. Asiat, 
IX — 6, 6h. (2) Anaeard. orient, ix — 6, 6h. 

Elephantiasis Grseeorum. See Leprosy. 

Emaciation. See Atrophy. 

Emissions. [For the treatment of sexual disorders, firm 
but kindly moral counsel is required. Evil habits 
must be entirely abandoned. All stimulating foods 
and drinks, and tobacco must be avoided.] Abnor- 
mally frequent nocturnal emissions: (i) Kali broni 
gr. ii. 8h.; (2) Digitaline 3X, gr. i. in the morning on 
rising. From morbid excitability of the organs; 
emissions induced by slight abdominal irritations, 
Chi7t. 3, 4h. Sthenic, with terrible erections and 
great desire, Ac. picric. 3x, gr, i. 4h, Accompanied 



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by strangury, Ca^ith. 3, 4h. Easily excited in the 
presence of females, Con. 30, 6h. 

Weakness from. — (i) Chm, 3, 4I1. ; in all cases, Ac. 
phos. IX, gtt v., in a tumbler of water may be given 
as a beverage with dinner. (2) Calc. phos. 3, gr. ii. 
6h When there is constipation, Nux v. 3, 4h. Epi- 
lepsy, Cupr. met. 6, 4h. See also Self-abuse, Sper- 
matorrhoea. 

Emphysema — Lobelia 3, 3h. See also Asthma, Bron- 
chitis, Chest, and Cough. 

Empyema See Pleurisy. 

Encephalitis. See Brain, 

Enchondroma.— ^^V. 3, gr. iii. 8h. 

Endocarditis. See Heart. 

Endometritis.— -^rj^i^. 3, 6h. See also Leucorrhoea. 

Enteralgia. See Colic. 

Enteric Fever— Typhoid Fever.— (Whenever there is 

the least suspicion of typhoid fever all solid food 
should be stopped; 5^^ Diet). — At the very commence- 
ment, when it is not absolutely certain whether it is 
true typhoid or a low gastric fever, tongue coated 
yellow or white, flat, bitter taste, loose stools, rest- 
less, Bapt <J> — 30, 2h. Sore, bleeding gums and lips; 
throat dark red or black; "black tongue," or like 
raw beef; offensive head and discharge; exhaustion, 
Ecchin. ^ gtt i. — x. 2h. Low fever, shooting or 
jerking tearing pains in head, throat, chest, abdomen, 
and limbs, pains increased by movement, white 
tongue, Bry. i, 2h. Low fever, general soreness and 
tenderness, rheumatic pains relieved by movement, 
restlessness, Rhus t, i, 2h. If the fever persists and 



98 ENT — EPI 

increases, and the diagnosis is no longer doubtful, 
Arsen. 3, 2I1. This medicine is of itself often suffi- 
cient from the beginning to the end of the disease. 
Great excitement, turgescence of face, shining eyes, 
Bell. I every hour until the patient is calmed. 
Tremor, restlessness, constant desire to get out of 
bed, twitching of eyeballs, Agar, i, ih., in the same 
way as Bell. Somnolence, incoherent mutterings, 
Hyoscy. i, every hour. When there is slipping down 
to the foot of the bed, tendency to involuntary evac- 
uations, aversion to food, copious urination, Ac. mur. 
3x, ih. Great prostration, profuse perspirations, in- 
voluntary evacuations, A. phos.^ ix, ih. If the lungs 
become inflamed, Phos. 3, 2h. If with the inflamma- 
tion there is sharp pleuritic pain, worse on motion, 
better by lying on affected side, Bry. i, ih. If there 
is epistaxis, or if there is blood in the stools, the 
blood being bright, Ipec. i, ih. for some hours, until 
the symptoms calling for Ipec. are entirely removed. 
If the blood is dark. Ham. i, in the same way as 
Ipec. If there is tympanitis along with haemorrhage, 
Tereb. 3, ih. ; locally, application of flannels wrung 
out of hot water, with a few drops of turpentine 
sprinkled on . When there is peritonitis or peritoneal 
pain, Merc. cor. 3, 2h. When diphtheria complicates 
typhoid, Merc. cyan. 6, 2h. If the case does not re- 
spond well to the above-named remedies, Pyrogen 
6—30, 4h. 

Enteritis. See Diarrhoea and Peritonitis. 

Enuresis. See Urine. 

Epididymitis. See Testicles, Infi^ammation of. 

Epilepsy. — (The general condition of the patient must 
always be considered. Epilepsy wnll often be re- 
moved by medicines homoeopathic to the general 



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condition when medicines chosen according to the 
characteristics of the convulsions alone would have 
no influence. The following remedies are recom- 
mended on the supposition that the convulsions are 
the only, or at aay rate the only serious departure 
from health. ) 

RecknT Bpilkpsy. — Kali cyan. 3, 8h. Recent, in 
young, sanguine subjects, Bell, ix to 3, 6h. Violent 
convulsions, frightful distortions of eyes and limbs, 
opisthotonos, Cic. v. 3, 6h. Violent convulsions, rigid- 
ity, foaming at the mouth, CEnanth. croc. 3, 6h. 
From emotional disturbance, Ig7i. 3, 6h. Recent 
epilepsy caused by fright; in stammerers, Slrani 3, 
6h. Fits coming on in sleep, much drowsiness, con- 
stipation, Op. 3, 6h. x\ssociated with digestive dis- 
order, excessive belching of flatulence, Arg. n. 6, 
gtt. ii. 8h. (When the belching is premonitory of a 
fit, Arg. n. taken every half hour will prevent it ) 

Chronic Bpii^Kpsy.— In general, Bufo 6, 8h. In pale, 
lymphatic subjects, Calc. c. 6, 8h. Fits during sleep, 
nervous irritability, Sil. 6, 8h.- Fits in sleep, drowsi- 
ness, constipation. Opium 3, 8h. Very obstinate 
constipation, cachexia, malnutrition, unhealthy 
skin. Plumb. 30, 8h. When the "aura" is a wavy 
sensation in the brain, Act. r. i, ^h. will ward off a 
fit. 

Epistaxis. See Nose. 

Epulis. — (i) Thuja I, 4h. (2) Plumb, acet. 6, 4h. 

Epithelioma. See Cancer. 

Erotomania. — Nymphomania. — (i) Hyosc. i, ih.; (2) 
Origanmn 3, ih.; (3) Platina 6, 2h.; (4) Strain. 3, 
. ih ; (5) Tarentula 3. ih ; (6) when occurring before 
the monthly period, Calc. phos. 30, 8h. 



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Satyriasis. — Ac. pier 3, gr. ii. 411. Where there is 
local irritation, Canth. 3, 2h. Purely nervous cases, 
Phos. 3, 2h. In alcohol drinkers, Nux 0, 3, 2h. 

Eructations. — Loud, copious, painless belchings, Arg. n. 
6, gtt. ii. 3h. Distension of the stomach; eructa- 
tions tasting of food taken, with or without heart- 
burn, Carb. V. 6, 6h. After Caj'bo v.; flatulence 
rising up into oesophagus and causing pressure and 
choking, Carbo a. 6, 6h. With nervous dyspepsia, 
Ac. carbol. 3, 2h. With sensation of painful lump 
at epigastrium, Abies nig. 3, 4h. Flatulence in 
nervous subjects, Xux inosch. i — 3, 2h. Eructations 
of particles of food ver^^ sour (rumination), Sul. 30, 
8h. (During the attacks, Cham. <^, gtt. i. in hot 
water >^h., for three or four hours, will often give 
relief if the others, which may be given both in the 
attacks and over a length of time, fail to do so. ) See 
also Dyspepsia, Flatulence. 

Eruptions. See Acne, Eczema, Herpes, Nettle-rash, 
Psoriasis, &c. 

SUPPRKSSED — Chronic eruptions, Sulph. 6, 8h. Ecze- 
ma, erysipelas, scarlatina, and measles, with coldness 
and prostration, Camph. $, gtt. i. 15m. With chest 
symptoms, Bry. i, ih. With oppression of the brain, 
Cuper. acet. 3X, ih. 

Erysipelas. — in simple acute cases. Chin. 4), gtt. x. 2h. 
(This will often cut short an attack if given at the 
outset. ) Smooth, tense, red skin. Bell. 3, ih. Much 
swelling. Apis 3X, ih. Vesicles and bullae, Rhus v. 
3, ih. Phlegmonous erysipelas (when the tissues 
under the skin are involved and suppuration 
threatens), Verat, v, ix, ih.; Veral. v. ^ to be 
painted on the part. When suppuration has oc- 
curred, Hepar sulph. 6, ih. Where there is low 



ERY— EXH loi 

fever, thirst, red tongue, anxiety, prostration, Ars. 
3, ih. It may be necessary to make an incision. 
Should gangrene occur, Crotalus 3, ih. Erysipelas 
of the head striking in, Ciiper. acet. 3X, ih. Erv'sipe- 
las of the throat with swelling, Apis 3X, ih. Wander- 
ing er}'sipelas, Graph. 6, 6h. The same, where there 
is great sensitiveness of the skin to the slighest tou(^h 
or the least cold, Hep. s. 6, 6h. CEdema after 
erysipelas when painful, Hep. s. 6, 6h. When pain- 
less — (i) Graph 6, 6h. ; (2) Sulph, 3., 6h. : (3) Aur. 
fnet 6, 6h. ; locally, Verat. v. $, as paint. 

Chroxic. — Ferrii'tn phos. 3, gr. ii, 6h. With much 
oedema, Nat. niiir. 6, 6h, 

Erythema. — Simple erythema, Bell. 3., 2h. In old people 
from obstructed circulation, Mezer. i, 2h. 

Erythema Nodosum. — Apis 3X, 2h. (if there is con- 
siderable fever, Aco?i. 3, ih, should be given at the 
commencement ) Much rheumatic pain, Rhus tox. 
3. 2h. 

Excitement, Effects of. — Fever and restlessness. Aeon. 
3, ih Headache, Bell 3, ih. Sleeplessness, Coff 3, 
ih Bilious derangement, Cham 6, ih. 

Excoriation. — Between the nates of infants (intertrigo), 
Cham. 6, 6h When it occurs frequently, Lje. 6, 6h. 
When the affected parts are very painful, Merc. sol. 
6, 6h. Excoriation of thighs from walking, ^thns. 

Excrescences. — Granulations in wounds ^proud-flesh), 
Silic 6, 4h; locally, finely powdered bluestone to be 
dusted on. See also Warts. 

Exhaustion, mental. See Brain-fag*. 

Bodily — From over-exertion, Ar7i. i, ih ; a hot bath 



I02 E X O — E Y E 

(about 102° F. ) in which Am ^ (a teaspoonful to the 
gallon) has been mixed. Strong beef-tea given hot. 

Exophthalmic Goitre. See Goitre. 

Exostosis.— C(2/<r. 7?//6>r. 6, 8h. When occurring on the 
head and jaws, Heclce lava, 6, 8h. Syphilitic, (i) 
Aur. 2,0, 8h; (2) Me7^c. c. 3, 8h. 

Expectoration. See Cough, Throat. 

Extremities. See Hands, Feet, &c 

Eyes. — Orbit. — Bruised. See Black Eye. 

Lids. — Quivering. See Blepharospasm. Sebaceous 
cyst. See p. 97. Tumours. Acute inflammation 
of the margins, Euphras. i, 2h.; locally, a lotion of 
Euphras. ^ (ten drops to the ounce) to be used every 
three hours. Chronic redness and irritation of the 
margins (this is sometimes due to hypermetropia, 
and should then be treated by suitable glasses; when 
due to other causes), Clem, i, 4h. Irritation with 
formation of much matter, '//<?/. s. 6, 4h. Inflamma- 
tion and great redness of the margins, dry mucus on 
the lashes, morning agglutination, Graph. 6, 4h. 
Chronic irritation in strumous subjects, Calc. c. 6, 6h. 
Itching, biting, in the margins, Mezer. i, 4h. Scurf 
of the margins, Ars. 3, 4h. Simple agglutination of 
the lids, Merc, sol 6, 6h. ; locally, vaseline to be ap- 
plied at night, very lightly. 

InTERNAI, Surface. — Acute inflammation. — The same 
treatment as for inflammation of conjunctiva of eye. 
See below. Infi^ammation of the Bye. 

Internal Surface — Chronic inflammation — (i) Hep. 
s. 6, 6h.; (2j cracks or soreness at commissures, 
Graph. 6, 6h ; (3) Merc. cor. 3, 6h. 



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TinviouRS. — Sebaceous Give (i) Staphys, 6, 8h. After 
tuis \2\ Calc. c. 30, 6h (3) Ac. benz, 3x, 8h.; locally, 
paint at bed time with Ac. benz. 3X. If these fail, 
puncture and scrape out the cyst from within, Merc, 
sol. 6, 6h. Tarsal wart-like tumours, Thuja i, 6h. 
Thuja 4> painted night and morning. 

Ptosis — (i) Gels. \, a^.\ {2) 3Iorph.^, /\h.. With dull 
frontal headache, Sep. 6, 4h. 

Ectropion and Entropion must be treated surgically. 
The medicines recommended for inflammation of the 
tarsal edges will be of assistance. 

INFI^AMMATION OF THE LaCHRYMAI, SaC. — At the 

commencement, Puis. 3, 2h. When matter has 
formed, Hep s. 6, 4h. If this fails to benefit speedily, 
Silic. 6, 3h. 

Lachrymal Fistula. — (i) Si lie. 6, 4h. ; (2) Ac.fluor. 
6, gtt. ii. 4h.; (3) Merc. cor. 6, 4h. K course of Sul. 3, 
4h., may be given with advantage as an intercurrent 
medicine. It may be given for one or two weeks. 
The remedy originally given may then be resumed if 
indicated. 

Inflammation of the Eye (Conjunctivitis.) — 
[N B. In almost all acute inflammatory states of the 
eye frequent bathing with hoi water is ailvantageous.] 
Acute, from cold or injury, Aco?i. 3, ih ; lotion of 
Ac. boracic. (eight grains to the ounce) to be kept 
applied until the pain has subsided. If the inflam- 
mation is not very much better within forty-eight 
hours, Euph. i, ih.; lotion of Euph. ^ (ten drops to 
the ounce) to be kept applied. In unhealthy sub- 
jects, Sulph 6, 2h. Pustular inflammation. Ant tart, 
3x, 4h ; going on to ulceration of cornea, Merc cor, 
3, 4I1. 



I04 EYE 

PURUI.ENT INFI.AMMATION OF THE ByE (EGYPTIAN 
OphThai^mia). — Aco7i. 3, every hour for six hours, 
then, if the symptoms are not subdued, there not 
being much pus, Rhus tox. 3, every hour. If there is 
much pus, Argent, nit. 3X, every hour. The eye to 
be kept scrupulously clean with a Borax wash (ten 
grains to the ounce), and a solution of Nitrate of 
Silver (one grain to the ounce), to be dropped in 
every two hours. 

GONORRHCEAI, INFI^AMMATION OF THE ByE. — MerC. 

cor. 3, ih. ; locally, a lotion of Merc. cor. i, ten drops 
to the ounce, every two hours. This should be inject- 
ed under the lids with a glass syringe. After Merc, 
cor.^ when the acute stage has subsided. Hep. s. 3, gr. 
ii. — 6, 3h. If there is much, pain, Aeon. 3, X^' ^^7 
be given intercurrently, until the pain is relieved. 

PURUI.ENT INFI.AMMATION OF THE ByE IN NEW- 
BORN CHII.DREN (OpHTHAI^MIA NEONATORUM). 

— Hygienic Treatment: — Immediately after birth 
the nurse must wash the infant's eyes with the 
greatest possible care, removing all traces of mucus. 
For this purpose a fine linen rag, dipped in clean 
water, may be used. Beginning at the outer corner, 
the eyelids are gently wiped from side to side, until 
all traces of m.ucus are removed, and the eyelids 
remain perfectly clean. Sponges must never be used. 
As soon as the child's eyes are thus washed clean and 
dried, the nurse is to wash her own hands most care- 
fully in water with w^iich carbolic acid, Condy 's fl.uid, 
or other disinfectant has been mixed. If in the first 
few days after birth signs of inflammation appear — 
redness, sw^elling, and sticking together of the lids — 
the greatest care must be taken. If from any reason 
the doctor cannot be in attendance immediately, the 
nurse must herself cleanse the eyes in the following 



EYE 105 

manner: — A perfectly clean and very soft piece of 
linen is moistened with tepid water; any excess of 
water is then squeezed out. The muco-purulent dis- 
charge between the eyelids is wiped off very gently — 
without scrubbing or scratching; special attention 
being paid to the inner corner of the eyelid where 
the mucus particularly accumulates. After re- 
peatedly rinsing the linen in clean water, the upper 
eyelid is gently raised by means of the thumb 
placed on the eyelid immediately above the lashes, 
but without making any undue pressure. The muco- 
purulent matter which escapes is removed with the 
rag as often as it appears. In the next place, the 
lower eyelid is drawn dowm with the forefinger, and 
also wiped with great care. If the eyelids stick 
together, they must be moistened with w^ater until 
separation takes place without any effort. The water 
used in cleansing the eyes must be perfectly pure; 
no milk or soap is to be mixed with it. Medical 
Treatment: — Arg. nit. 3, 2h. ; after well washing, a 
drop of a solution of Arg. nit. (two grains to the 
ounce) to be introduced into the eye. 

Scrofulous Infi^ammation of the Eye (Stru- 
mous Ophthai^mia). — (For the photophobia, Acofi. 
3, or Coniuni 3, may be given as long as indicated 
intercurrently with any of the following medicines, 
if it should not yield readily to the latter.) (i) 
Sulph. 6, 6h.; scrupulous cleanliness. If Sulph. 
does not suffice for the cure, after a fortnight's time 
give Merc. cor. 3, 3h. If these fail, give (i ) Hepar 
s. 6, 4h ; (2) Rhus tox. 3, 3h.; (3) in fair subjects, 
inclined to be fat; w4th cold, damp feet and hands, 
Calc. c. 6, 4h. Where the nervous element predomi- 
nates, Arsen. 4, 3h. If the inflammation is vesicular 
(phlyctenular conjunctivitis), Ant. tart. 3, 2h. 



io6 EYE 

Granular Inflammation of thk Byk (Granular 
Ophthalmia — Granular Lids). — Lids closed, red, 
swollen, painful, burning, acrid flow of tears; stitch- 
ing pains in eyes, photophobia, Calc. c. 6, 8h. If 
irritating lotions and applications have been used, 
they must be omitted, and a w^eak Calendula lotion 
(five drops to the ounce) used three times a day. In 
patients of the blonde feminine type, eyes better in 
open air, worse in warm room or near a fire, Puis. 3,4h. 
Where there are cracks at the commissures. Graph, 
6, 8h. Lids swollen, red, painful, stinging pains, 
great sensitiveness to touch, pain in brow and head 
proceeding from eyes, photophobia, pains worse in the 
night, worse from cold, better from warmth, Hep. 6, 
4h. If these fail after a trial of a few weeks. Kali 
bich 3x, gr. ii. 6h. After this. Thuja 12, 3h.; lotion 
of Thuja ^ (five drops to the ounce) three tin.es a 
day. Then Arsen. 3, 3h. Pterygium, Ratanhia i, 
3h. After four weeks, if this has no effect, Zmc. 6, 
8h. \Sulph 6 may be given for a time in all chronic 
eye affections, if the seemingl}^ indicated remedies 
fail to respond Aeon. 3 may be given intercurrently 
with any of the above when the pain and photopho- 
bia are distressing ] 

Rheumatic Inflammation of thk Eyk. — Much 
pain in the eye from cold, little redness or intoler- 
ance of light, Aeon, 3, ih. If this fails to make great 
improvement within two days, Spigel. 3, ih. Sudden 
. . attack of inflammation and pain in the eye in gouty 
persons (gout in the eye), Nux v. 6, lom. 

Inflammation of the Cornea (Keratitis). — Sup- 
purative, early stage, Hep s. 6, 4h. Interstitial 
keratitis, cloudiness of centre of cornea, in syphilitic 
subjects. Merc. cor. 3, 3h. Should this not prove 
efficient, Kali hichrom.^ 3X, gr. ii. 4h. And if this 



EYE 107 

fails, Aur. niur. 3X, 3h. Ulceration of the cornea, 
deep spreading ulceration without much pain, Merc, 
cor. 3, 2h. Should this fail, Calc. c. 6, /\h. Numer- 
ous small ulcerations, ArscJi. 3, 4h. Afterwards, if 
this is not sufficient, SiUph. 3, 4h. Then Hep. s. 6, 
4h. (When there is much photophobia, Co^/. 3 may 
be given intercurrently with any of the above. ) 

SCI.EROT1TIS. — Acute, Aeon, i, 2h. Chronic, Aferc, 
(^or. 3, 3h. When complicating keratitis, the treat- 
ment of the keratitis will answer for both. 

Opacity of the Cornea. — (i) Eiiphras. i, 6h.; (2) 
Cale. c. 6, 6h.; (3) Cann. sat. i, 6h. ; (4) Silic. 6, 6h. 

Iritis. — If taken at the very beginning, slight tur- 
bidity, sluggish action of the muscle, pain, Aeon, i, 
ih. When lymph is effused and adhesions threaten, 
Atropine (one grain to the ounce; if adhesions have 
formed, four grains to the ounce) must be instilled 
into the eye to dilate the pupil; internally, Merc. cor. 
3, ih. If these prove insufficient. Clematis i, ih. In 
syphilitic cases, mercurial inunction (mercurial oint- 
ment of the B. P. to be rubbed in) daily on the inner 
surface of the thighs. When mercury has been fully 
tried without good effect, Kali hich. 3X, gr. ii 8h., 
locally. Atropine, as above. When the patient has 
had too much mercury, Nit. ac 3X — 12, 2h. Gonor- 
rhoea! (i) Thnja i, jh.; (2) Cle77i. i, ih. Serous 
iritis must be treated by operation, remedies suited 
to the constitution of the patient being given inter- 
nally, generally Ars 3, 2d. 

Sympathetic Ophthalmia. — This must be treated 
according to indications given in above section. The 
attendant must consider the propriety of removing 
the injured eyeball. 

Choroiditis. — Recent cases, with congestive head- 



io8 EYE 

ache, appearance of light and colours, Bell. 3, 2h. 
Recent cases, with less active symptoms. Gels, i, 2h. 
Recent cases, with crushing or pressing asunder pain 
in eyeballs, Pni. spi. i, 2h. Chronic cases, appear- 
ance of flames and colours, Phos. 3, 2h. Dissemi- 
nated choroiditis — (r) Kali tod. i, 2h.; (2) Merc, sol, 
3, 2h. Suppurative choroiditis (panophthalmitis), 



Retinai, Hyperemia. — From cold, Aeon. 3, ih. From 
anomalies of refraction or accommodation — suitable 
glasses. From over-strain, Santonine 3, 4h. and rest. 
From heart disease, Gael. 3, 2h. From menstrual 
disorders. Puis. 3. 2h. 

Retinitis. — Simple and recent. Bell. 3, ih More 
chronic, sensitiveness to the glare of a fire, Merc. 
sol. 6, 4h. SyphiUtic, Kali iod., gr. ii. 4h. Symp- 
tomatic of renal disease — (i) Plumb. 6, 4h.; (2) 
Merc. cor. 3, 4h. (The patient must be treated ac- 
cording to the general state.) 

ReTinai, Hemorrhage. — From accident. Am. i, ih. 
Passive, Ham. i, ih. Multiple haemorrhage, Phos. 
3, 2h. For reabsorption of effused blood. Lack. 

6, 4h. 

Detachment of the Retina. — Recent, (i) Apis 6, 
2 — 4h. (2) Gels. I, 2 — 4h.; afterwards, Aur.mur. 
3x, 2h. See also Sight 

Optic Neuritis. — In the first stage, Apis 3X, 2h. 
Secondary inflammatory changes, effusion, Arseri. 3, 
gtt. i. 2h. If depending on cerebral disease, this 
must be treated; if of syphilitic origin, Kali iod. gr. 
V. 4h. for four days, and longer if improvement 
progresses; to be followed, when the iodide appears 
to be losing its effect, by Merc cor. 3, 4h. Subse- 



EYE 109 

quent atrophy may be arrested by — (i) Phos. 3, 4h. ; 
(2) Ntix V I, 2I1. 

SC1.KR0SIS OF THK Optic Nkrvk. — (i) Phos. 3, 2h., 

(2) Nux V. [, 2h. ; (3) Strych. nit. 3X, 2h. 

GivAUCOMA. — (The surgeon will decide when operation 
is necessary. ) When taken at the commencement, 
if the disease has not been induced by instillation 
of atropine, Bell. 3, ih. If atropine has been the 
cause, drop in E serine (two grains to the ounce), and 
give, if the pains are burning, sticking, tearing, and 
pressing, Aco7i. i, ih., to be followed, if necessary, 
by Phos. 3, ih. If the pains are intolerably press- 
ing and sticking, Spigel. i, ih. 

Cataract. — Soft cataract, Colch. i, 4h. Traumatic, 
Con. 3, 4h, Capsular opacity, Euphras. 3X, 4h. ; 
lotion oi Euphras. $ (ten drops to the ounce), three 
times a day. Hard cataract, in the early stage, con- 
centric opaque laminae — (i) Calc. c. 6, 4h.; (2) Phos, 
3, 4h. Later stages, Silic. 6, 4h. 

SouiNT. — When due to errors of refraction or accom- 
modation, suitable spectacles, and operation if neces- 
sary. When a sequel to convulsions. Bell. 3, 4h. 
In choreic subjects, with muscu'ar twitchings, Hyos. 
3, 4h. Convergent, Cyclamen 3, 4h With worm 
symptoms — (1) Cina 3, 4h. ; (2) Spigel. 3, 4h. 
Squint of either eye; loss of power of internal 
rectus, Alumina 6, 6h. Internal squint with right 
eye, Aluw^en 6, 6h. Internal squint of either eye. 
Gels. 3, 6h. Squint; staring, protruding, injected 
eyes; delirium, Sir am. 3, 6h. 

Sight — weak. — When due to errors of refraction or 
accommodation, suitable spectacles must be provided. 
Failure of accommodation may be helped by the 



no FAC 

following medicines: — Inability to see fine work at 
night, soreness of eyes, Baptis. 3, 6I1. Ciliary over- 
strain, Ar7i. 3, 6h., and lotion of Am. $ one drop to 
the ounce in hot water. Small objects appear large, 
Ac. oxal. 6, 6h. Everything appears too large, 
Nux mosch. 3, 6h. Hypermetropia; presbyopia; 
astigmatism ; blurred sight, with heat in eyelids and 
eyes; disposition to cover or press on eyes; light 
painful, darkness pleasant; appearance of a veil 
before the sight, Lil. t. 30, 8h. Blurred, smoky 
vision; blindness, vertigo, Gels. 3, 8h. In rheumatic 
patients, when caused by exposure to dry cold, 
Canst. 3, 4h.; when caused by damp cold, Rhtis t. 
3, 4h. Simple paralysis of ocular muscles; and after 
diphtheria — (i) Sa7it. 3, gr. ii. 4h ; (2) Gels, i, 4h. 
In cases of nerv^ous weakness, as from sexual excess, 
Phos, 3, 4h. Weak sight from over-use, when the 
external muscles are affected, causing aching on 
moving the eyes, Natr. tnur. 6, 4h. Dazzling vision, 
smarting soreness of the eye after working a short 
time; eyes ache, burn and feel strained; from fine 
sewing or reading too much, Ruta 3, 4h.; lotion of 
Rtita f (ten drops to the ounce). Short sight or my- 
opia, Physostigma 3X, 4h. See also Hemiopia. 

SiGH^, Disorders of. — Coloured Vision. Red, Bell. 
3, 4h. Yellow, Sant. 3, gr. ii. 4h. As if through a 
mist — (i) Phos. 3, 4h.; (2) Plumb. 6, 4h. Double 
vision^ w4th heaviness of the eyes, giddiness. Gels. 3, 
4h. With mental depression, Ati7\ met. 3X, gr. ii. 
4h. Of horizontal objects at some distance, Ac. nit. 

6, 4h. See also Amaurosis, Amblyopia, Hemi- 
opia. 

Face.— Ache. See Gumboil, Neuralgia, Toothache. 

COMPI^EXION. — Earthy, unhealthy -looking, Nat m. 6, 
4h. Yellow; yellow spots; yellow saddle across the 



F AC — F AI III 

nose; yellow round the mouth, Sep. 6, 4h. "'Liver 
spots," Lye. 6, 4h. Blotches and roughness of the 
skin, produced by cold winds — (i) J^alt c. 6, 4h ] (2) 
Petrol. 3, 6h. Scurfy eruption round the mouth, 
Ars, 3, 4h. Painful pimples on forehead, Ambj'a 3X, 
6h. Painful pimples on forehead and face; also over 
whole body. Indigo 3, 6h. Pimples on forehead, dry 
or moist; boils; much irritation, Ledum 6, 4h.; 
afterwards, if necessary, Cale. phos. 3, gr. ii. 6h. ; if 
this is not sufficient, Clematis ;^x, 6h. Eruption on 
chin, Cicuta 3X, 6h. See also Acne. 

FivUSHiNG. — At the change of life. See Change of 
Life. From excitement, Aeon, 3, ih. Whilst eat- 
ing, with sweat, cold hands and feet, Carbo an. 6, 4h. 

Pacial Paralysis, See Paralysis, Faciai,. 

Pseces. See Constipation, Diarrhoea. 

Painting. — During the attack the patient must be laid 
in the horizontal posture, cold water applied to the 
forehead, and ammoniacal smelling-salt placed under 
the nostrils; internally, Moschiis 3, every five min- 
utes. 

Tendency to. — When due to disease of the heart or 
other constitutional disorder, the condition on which 
it depends is to be treated. When fainting occurs from 
no discoverable cause, it is often really epileptic, and 
must then be treated as directed for Epilepsy. Sim- 
ple fainting in nervous subjects, Moschus 3, 4h. 
From wony-; hysterical fainting, Ign. 3, 4h. Period- 
ical fainting in debilitated subjects, Ars. 3, 4h. 

Paintness. — Sense of, at Pit of Stomach. — (i) Act. 
r. 3, 4h. (2) Ign. 3, 4h. (3) Hydrastis t, 4h, At 
II am., Sulph, 3, 4h. 



112 FAL — FEE 

Falls. See Bruises, Sprains. 

False Pains. See Labour. 

Fatty Degeneration. — General, Phos, 2, 4h. 

Fatty Tumours. See Tumours, 

Famine Fever. See Relapsing Fever. 

Fatigue. See Exhaustion. 

Favus. — The crusts to be removed by poulticing, and the 
part kept saturated with lotion of Dilute sulphurous 
acid (one part to three of distilled water). If after a 
fortnight this fails to remove the disease, a solution 
of Corrosive sublimate (one part in five hundred) 
may be painted on night and morning, when the 
scales have been removed. Internally, Cod-liver oil 
should be given to weakly children, and Sepia 6, 6h. 
Extremely offensive odor, Medor. 200, gl. iv. I4d. 

Fear or Fright. — Congestion to the head, feverish heat, 
restlessness, great fear; fear of death, Aeon. 3, ih. 
Continued anguish, with fear, cries, and tears, Bell, 
3, ih. Fears to be alone, especially evenings in bed. 
Kali c. 6, 4h. Great fear of death with sadness. 
Plat. 30, 8h. Fears to be in the dark, Sir am, 6, 4h. 

Effects of. — Pains in the forehead, stupefaction or 
loss of consciousness; involuntary evacuations, 
Opium 3, ih. Effects of fright, deep consuming 
grief, gastric disturbance, headache, convulsions (es- 
pecially^ in children), Ignat. 3, ih. Diarrhoea caused 
by fear, Puis. 3, ih. 

Febricula. See Fever. 

Feet. — Aching. — From over- walking, Am. 3, 2h.; hot 
foot bath with Ar^iica <l>, a drachm to the gallon. 



FEE 113 

Burning. — Apis, 3X, 4h. Burning in the soles, worse 
whilst walking, Graph. 6, 4h. Burning in the feet at 
night, Silic. 6, 4h. Burning of the hands and feet, 
Secale 3, 4h. Heat of the feet with burning sensa- 
tion in the evening in bed, followed by itching, Sul. 

CH11.BLAINS. See Chilblains. 

Coldness. — Carho v. 6, 4h. With numbness and 
cramps, Secale 3, 4h. See also Circulation, Cya- 
nosis. 

Pains in. — Painful drawing, as if sprained; heaviness 
and tension; stitches in the heels, as if stepping on 
needles; spasmodic contraction of the toes; pains 
worse during rest, easier during motion, Rhus t. 3, 
4h. Feeling in the feet as if swollen and stiff. Apis, 
3x, 4h. Swelling and pain in the ankle, stiffness of 
the feet in the morning; heaviness of the feet; 
bruised pain under the heels; ball of right toe feels 
soft, thick, painful on stepping; boring in right 
great toe. Led 6, 4h. Drawing pains in ankles, feet, 
and toes, Caul, i, 4h. 

Soi.ES. — Pains in, pains on stepping, Ac. mur. 3X, 4h. 
Violent spasmodic pains in the soles and heels, pre- 
venting stepping; burning in feet and soles; heels 
and balls of toes painful as if sore on stepping; toes 
sore as if ulcerated, Ac. phos. i, 4h. Soles painful 
as if beaten; burning pain in soles. Puis. 3, 4h 
Soles painful when walking on pavement. Petrol. 3, 
4h. Burning in soles and heels when walking, 
Graph. 6, 4h. Burning in soles, kS///. 3, 4h. Cramp in 
the legs and feet; feet asleep and stiff, Secale i, 4h. 
Neuralgic pain in instep and ball of toes; pain as if 
stepping on something hard in middle of ball of toes, 
Br am. 6, 4h. 



114 FElv — FEV 

HKEiyS. — Tearing in the heels, sprained pain in the 
ankles, boring in the great toe, Silic, 6, 4h. Cramps 
in the feet, tearing in the instep and great toe, Cplch, 
3, 4h. Tearing in the left heel and tendo Achillis, 
Calc. caust. 3, 4h. Stinging and pain in the heels, 
worse when sitting; sticking and weak feeling in 
tendo Achillis, Valer. 3, 4h. Acute pain in the heels; 
pulsative stitches in the left heel when standing, Ran. 
bulb. 3, 4h. Drawing tension in tendo Achillis; 
slow large stitches in tendo Achillis, Ac. mur. 3X., 
4h. 

Perspiration. — Excessive and fetid (frequent wash- 
ing in water containing a little Condy's fluid; stock- 
ings to be changed every day or oftener), Siiic. 6, 
4h. With tenderness of the feet, Petrol. 3, 4h. In 
persons subject to skin eruptions, Sul. 3, 4h. Pro- 
fuse perspiration of the soles, causing soreness of the 
toes and balls of the feet, with sticking pains as if 
walking on pins, Ac. nit. i, 4h. Profuse perspira- 
tion of the feet until they become sore. Lye. 6, 4h. 

Soreness. — Soreness of the soles, especially towards 
the toes, Silic. 6, 4h. Swelling and heat in anterior 
portion of the sole. Petrol. 3, 4h. Sensitiveness of 
the soles, large horny places, A7it, crud. 6, 8h. 

Felon. See Whitlow. 

Fester, Tendency of Si^ight Wounds to.— (i) Hep. 6, 
6h.; (2) Silic. 6, 6h.; (3) Petrol. 6, 6h. See also 
Skin, Unheai^thy. 

Fetid breath. See Breath. 

Fever. — Simple ephemeral fever (febricula) Aeon. 3, 2h. 
Simple continued fever with bilious or gastric symp- 
toms, Baptis. IX, 2h. Continued fever of a low 
typhoid type, Arsen. 3, 3h. Fever of remittent type 



FIB — FLA 115 

in children or adults; passing off without perspira- 
tion, Gels. 3, 2h. See also Hyperpyrexia ; and the 
various fevers under their names. 

Fibroma ^Fibroid Tumor). — Silic. 3, gr. iii. 8h. 
Uterine, Secale i, 4h. Intractable bleeding from, 
(i) Thlaspi bursa pastoris i, 4h, ; (2) Hydraslinin 
mur. 2x, gr. ii., 2-4h. Teucr. ^ may be painted on. 
See Menorrhagia, and Uterus, Bi^kkding from. 

Finger, Gatherkd. See Whitlow. 

Fissures. See Anus, hands, nose, &c. 

Fistula. — Lachrymal, Silic. 6, 6h. I/achrymal and dental, 
Ac. fluor. 6, gtt. ii. 6h. Anal, Sil. 6, 8h.; locally. 
Calendula lotion (a drachm to two ounces). Should 
this fail — (i) Calc. phos. 3, gr. iii. 8h.; (2) Caust. 6, 
6h.; Calendula lotion. 

Fits. See Apoplexy, Convulsions, Epilepsy, Faint- 
ing, Hysteria. 

Flatulence. — Flatulent distension, causing frequent 
sighing or belching, Ac. carbol. 3, 4h. Fatulence 
in the stomach, coming upwards, causing oppression 
of the breathing, or sharp pains about the chest, the 
bowels being regular or loose, Ca7^b. v. 6, 4h. Flatu- 
lence of the lower part of the body, passing down- 
wards if at all, constipation, Lye. 6, 4h. Pain 
relieved by eructations. Lack. 6, 4h. Wind coming 
away easily, rushing upwards through the mouth, 
Arg. n. 6, gtt. ii. 4h. Flatulent dyspepsia, where 
"everything turns to wind," Nu:x: niosch. 3, 4h. 
Eructations empty, fetid, bitter, putrid, causing sore 
pain in epigastrium and chest, followed by sticking 
pain in stomach, contractive pain in epigastrium 
taking away the breath; collection of wind in epi- 
gastrium which is sensitive to touch, Calc. i. 3, 4h. 



ii6 FLO — G AN 

See also Abdomen, Distended, Distension, Dyps- 
pepsia, Eructations. 

Flooding. See Labour and Menstruation. 

Fluor Albus. See Leucorrhoea. 

Fushings of Heat. See Face and Change of Life. 

Forehead. See Face. 

Fracture. — To promote the union of, Symph. ix, 4h. 

Where the bones are much bruised, Ruta i, 4h. In 

scrofulous subjects, Calc. phos. 3, gr. ii. 6h. In 
rickety subjects, Silic. 6, 4h. 

Freckles. Dark freckles, Ac. nit. i, 4h. 

Fright, Effects of. See Fear. 

Frog. See Aphthae. 

Frost-bite. — Paint the part with compound tincture of 
Benzoin (Friar's balsam); if it is in the feet, and the 
stockings adhere, rub olive oil over the Benzoin. 
Internally Ferr. phos. 3, gr. ii. 4h. See also Chil- 
blains. 

Fungus. See Excrescences. 

Fungus Haematodes. See Cancer, Bi^eeding. 

Furunculus. See Boil. 

Gall-stones. See Calculus, Bieiary. 

Ganglion. — (i) Ruta i, 4h.; (2) Ac. benz. 3X, 4h. Ben- 
zoic acid lot. on rubbed in night and morning (pure 
benzoic acid, fifteen grains; rectified spirit, three 
drachms; distilled water, eight ounces). 

Gangrene. — Of wounds, Lack. 6, 2h.; lotion of Lachesis 
6 (a drachm to two ounces) to be applied locally. 



GAS 117 

Gangrenous ulcers, Ecchin . 6, gtt i — x, 2h.; locally, 
application of tincture, diluie with equal parts of 
water. Senile gangrene, Secale i, 2I1.; locally, an 
ointment of boracic acid^ wheie there is blood-poison- 
ing from the wound. Great vital depression, cold- 
ness of extremities, blueness of the skin, burning 
pains, Carb. v. 6, 4h. Restlessness, anxiety, prostra- 
tion, thirst, burning pains, Ars. 3, 4h. See Pysemia. 

Gastralgia. See Gastrodynia. 

Gastric Catarrh. See Dyspepsia, Stomacli. 

Gastric Fever. See Fever, Simpi^e; Continued; 
Enteric Fever. 

Gastric Ulcer. — (Rest and milk diet; if milk is not 
tolerated, koumiss.) In general, especially when the 
ulceration is near the pyloric end of the stomach, 
Uran. nit, 3X, g. ii. 6h. In chlcrotic subjects, Arg. 
nit. 6, gtt. ii. 6h. With dry red tongue, thirst, 
cachectic or typhoid condition, Ars. 3, 4h After 
burns, Kali bichr. 3X, gr. ii. 6h. (For the relief of 
the pain which sometimes accompanies the affection, 
if the remedy most indicated does not suffice. Air op. 
sulph. 2, gr. ii. may be given intercurrently. 

HEMORRHAGE FROM. — If bright, Ipec. I, every fifteen 
minutes. If dark, Ham. i, every fifteen minutes. 
(Ice to suck; small pieces may be swallowed. ) 

Gastritis, — Acute croupous inflammation of the stomach 
is due to poisoning, and this must be treated by the 
appropriate antidote. Catarrhal see Dyspepsia, 
Stomach. Degenerative inflammation of the stomach 
causing destruction of the peptic glands, Fhos. 3, 4h. 

Gastrodynia, Gastralg^ia, Pain in the Stomach.— 

Cramping, spasmodic pain, i^'ux v. 3, 2h. Burning 
pain, Ars. 3, 2h. Cutting pain, Ac. oxal. 3, 2h. 



ii8 G AT — GLE 

Gathering. See Breast, Whitlow, &c. 

German Measeles. See Roseola, Epidemic. 

Giddiness, See Vertigo. 

Glandular Swellings, AcuTK.— At the commencement, 
Bell. 3, ih. If Bell, fails to cut the affection short 
within twenty-four hours, Baryt. c. 6, ih. If in 
submaxillary glands, Arum tri, 6, 2h. Bronchial 
glands, Calc. c. 6, 4h. If suppuration threatens; 
actual suppuration in inguinal glands, Merc, sol. 6, 
4.; in inguinal glands, when Merc. sol. ceases to 
do good, Ac. nit. i, 2h. If suppuration has actually- 
taken place; threatening or actual suppuration in 
axillary glands, Hep. s. 6, 4h. After evacuation, 
Silic. 6, 4h. Locally Calendula 4> lotion (a tea- 
spoonful to two tablespoonfuls of water). See also 
Breast, Bronchial Glands, Bubo, Hodgkin's Dis- 
ease, and Tonsils. 

Chronic. — In all cases of scrofulous glands the treat- 
ment should be commenced with Bacillinum {see 
under Consumption). It should be given in doses 
of four or five globules of 30, 100 or 200 once a week, 
or less often, other medicines being given in the in- 
tervals, if indicated. If the condition is due to in- 
herited syphilis, Kali iod. i or 30 ever}^ 4h. Sub- 
maxillary glands, Arum tri. 6-30, 4h. In pale flabby 
subjects, Calc. iod. 3X, 4h. In thin, weakly subjects, 
Arsen. 3, 4h. Should these fail — (i) Baryt. c. 6, 6h.; 

(2) Cistus C. I, 4h. See also Goitre, Hodgkin's Dis- 
ease. 

Glaucoma. See under Eyes. 

Gleet. — Thuja 12, 4h. After Thuja, if necessary (i) Ac, 
nit. 12, 4h.; (2) Cimiabar 3X, gr. ii. 4h.; (3) Naph- 
thalin 3X, 4h. 



GIvO — GOU 119 

Glossitis.— ^-^^ Tongue. 

Goitre. — simple, soft — in general, Thyr. 30, 3X, gr. ii., 
or tablet or the extract 8h lod. 3X, 4h. In pale sub- 
jects, of soft fibre, cold moist feet, Calc, c. 6, 6h. If 
these fail, Ac. fluor. 3, gtt. ii. 6h. In old, hard 
goitres Spofig. 3, 4h. persistently. 
ExoPHTHAi^Mic. — (i) Thyrodin, as for simple goitre, 
in dark subjects; in fair subjects. Bell, 3, 4h. If 
there is anaemia, with full bursting headache, flushed 
face, Ferr. met. 6, 8h. In ill-nourished subjects, 
constipation, earthy complexion, Nat. niur. 6, 6h. 
During attacks of palpitation, Glon. 3, every half- 
hour. 

Gonorrhoea. — At the commencement, during the feverish 
stage, Aeon, i, every half -hour. Thick yellow dis- 
charge, profuse, scalding, erections; when the pros- 
tate gland is affected, Thuja 1-12, ih. If there is 
much engorgement, with erections, Canth. 3X, ih. 
After these Petrosel 6, gtt. v. 8h. When the acute 
stage is over, Can. sat. ^, gtt ii. 3h. In females, 
Sepia 6, 2h. Chronic cases, Naphthalin 3X, 4h. 
Yellowish, thick discharge; constitutional gonor- 
rhoea, Nat. sulph. 3, gr. ii. 8h. 

Gonorrhoeal Rheumatism. See Rheumatism, Gonor- 

RHCEAI,. 

Gout. — The paroxysm, (i) Bell. 3, ^h; (2) Urtica 
urens 6, gtt. v. 4h. I^ocally, a hot compress on 
which several drops of Colch. 4> have been dropped 
may be applied. In the forming stage, Puis. 3, 2h. 
When gout flies about from joint to joint. Puis. 3, 2h. 
When it is connected with uterine disorder, Sabina 
3, 2h. Subacute gout, Led. 4) 2h. 

Gouty Diathksis. — Where there is tendency to skin 



I20 GRA~GRI 

eruptions, Sul. 6, 6h. Where there is constipation 
and copious deposit of lithates, Lye. 6, 6h. See 
Diet: Gout. 

Suppresse:d or Undeci,are:d. — General congestion, 
blueness and coldness, Rhus t. 3, 2h. Coldness, 
earthy complexion, constipation, Nat m. 6, 6h. Con- 
gestion and pain in the spine, Ac. oxal. 3, 4h. 

In thk Eye. — Nux v. 6, every ten minutes. 

In the Throat. — Merc. sol. 3, gr. iii. 4h. 

In the Stomach. — Nux v. 6, every half-hour. 

At the Heart. — Angina-like pain at the heart, com- 
ing on suddenly in a gouty subject, Cupr. met. 6, 
every ten minutes. 

Granulations. See Excrescences. 

Gravel. — Red sandy sediment with flatulence in the 
abdomen and constipation, Lye. 6, 4h Should this 
fail, (i) Urtica ur. 4>, gtt. v. 6h. (2) Cocc. eact. 4>, gtt. 
V, 4h. White phosphatic sediment, Ac. phos. 2x, 
gtt. iii. 4h White sediment after standing, acrid 
sourish odour, Graph. 6, 4h. Brick-dust or straw- 
yellow granular deposit, Chinin, sulph. i, 4h. White 
or whitish-grey, and later, mealy reddish sediment; 
pain in the ureters, Berb. <^, 4h. Pasty sediment, 
reddish or white, Sep. 6. 4h. Oxalate of lime deposit, 
Ac. nitr. mur. i, 4h. Should this fail, Ac. oxal 3, 
4h. Turbid immediately after passing, like clay 
water, Sarsa 6, 4h. 

Green Sickness. See Anaemia and Menstruation, 
Grief. See Anxiety. 
Gripes, See Colic. 



GU M— H^ M 121 

Gum-boil. — Merc. sol. 6, 2h. 

Gum-rash (Red Gum).— (i) Cham. 6, 4h.; (2) Ant. c, 
6, 4h. 

Gums. — BivKKDiNG FROM. — Mere. sol. 6, 4I1. See also 
Purpura and Scurvy. 

InfIvAMKD — Merc. sol. 6, 4h. 

Ui^CERATED. — Simple ulceration — (i) Ac. nit. 6, 4h.; 
(2) Merc. cor. 3, 4h. With disease of the bone, Phos. 

FAI.1.ING Away. — From the teeth, Merc. sol. 6, 4h. See 
also Teeth and Toothache. 

Gumma. — Kali iod., gr. V. — XX. 8h. 
Gutta Serena.— -S*?^ Amaurosis. 

HaematemesiSc — Dark blood, Ham. i, every fifteen 
minutes. Bright blood, Ipec. i, every fifteen minutes. 
From mechanical injury, Am. i, every fifteen 
minutes, 

Hsematuria. — Tereb. 3, 2h. if this does not suffice, 
Ham. I, 2h. From mechanical injur>^. Am. i, 2h. 

Haemoglobinuria.— (i) Ac. pic. 3x, gr. ii. 4h.; (2) Phos. 
3. 4I1. 

Haemopytsis. See Consumption, Bi.keding. 

Haemorrhage.— From Kidnkys. See Haematuria. 

From Bowkes. — Dark blood, Ham. i, 2h. Light- 
coloured blood, Ipec. I, 2h. Copious, passive, pain- 
less, Cact. I, 2h. See also Dysentery and Haemor- 
rhoids. 

Lungs. See Consumption, Bleeding. 
9 



122 H^M 

NosK See Nose. 

Stomach. See Haematemesis. 

Uterus. See Metrorrhagia, Labour, and Men- 
struation, 

Haemorrhagic Diathesis.— (I ) Ham. i, 4h.; {2) Phos, 

3, 4h.; (3) Crotalus 2>y A^- 

Haemorrhoids or Piles.— Bleeding piles with open or 
loose bowels, Ham. 3, 4I1. ; locally, a lotion of Ham. 
^, thirty drops to the half -pint of water, with which 
the part should be bathed night and morning; and 
at night a piece of lint dipped in this lotion to be 
placed on the tumour, or just inside the orifice. For 
irritation from piles, Verbascum. ointment {Verbas- 
cum, 4> 31. — vaseline gi.). Blind piles in persons of 
sedentary life, spare, of costive habits, Nux v 3, 8h. 
Bleeding piles, costiveness, sinking at the stomach, 
especially in the forenoon; flushing; fainty spells; 
heat of the head with cold feet; irritable skin; aggra- 
vation at night on getting warm in bed, and from 
washing, Sulph. 3, 8h. Where there is much uneasi- 
ness in the parts, pain in the back, constipation, pro- 
lapse of rectum, bleeding or absence of bleeding, 
^sch. h. 3x, 4h. Great sensitiveness of the anus, 
itching, weakness of the sphincter and tendency to 
prolapse, Ac. mur. 3X, 4h. Heat, rawness, soreness, 
loose motions, prolapse, bleeding, Aloe i, 4h. Piles 
with burning and stinging in rectum; sore and smart- 
ing; mucous discharge; constipation, Am.m,. m.ur, 
3x, 4h. Piles burning as if pepper sprinkled on; 
tenesmus of rectum and bladder; tenacious mucus 
mixed with black blood; cutting colic before stool; 
tenesmus cutting and twisting during stool; after 
stool tenesmus, burning, thirst, drinking causing 
shuddering, drawing pains in the back; piles 



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swollen, itching, throbbing; soreness in anus; 
bleeding or blue; with mucous discharge; with 
bloody mucous stools; with drawing pain in 
small of back and cutting in abdomen, Caps. 
3, 4h. Piles burn and sting, Carb. a. 6, 4h. Sore- 
ness, itching, moisture; piles protrude, blue, sup- 
purating and offensive; with burning; stitches in 
rectum. Curb. v. 6, 4h. Blind piles with pressure and 
soreness in anus and rectum; painful while sitting 
and standing, less while walking, though renewed 
and worse after taking the fresh air; prolapse of rec- 
tum from moderate exertion after stool; sharp burn- 
ing pain in rectum, Ignat, 3, 4h. Piles with consti- 
pation from inertia of the rectum, especially when 
connected with uterine disorders or pregnancy, piles 
bleed, but only with great pressure, Collin. 3, 4h. 
In blonde persons of the feminine type, bowels open 
or loose; mucous discharge. Puis. 3, 4h. After all 
acute symptoms are passed, and only an insensitive 
swelling remains behind; external piles, Ac.fluor. 
3, gtt. ii. 6h. [Patients should sit on wooden or 
cane-bottomed chairs.] See also Constipation. 

Strangulated Piles. — Sometimes after a difficult 
stool piles become protruded, and spasm of the 
sphincter occurs, constricting the veins, and 
making return impossible, causing exquisite pain. 
When this occurs the best relief is obtained by apply- 
ing a potato poultice. A quantity of potatoes are 
boiled or steamed and then mashed with plenty of 
uusalted butter and made into a poultice. This is 
placed on a triangularly folded piece of flannel and 
the patient is made to sit upon it. One point of the 
flannel is then turned up between the thighs and the 
others passed round the back to meet it in the usual 
napkin fashion. This will give instantaneous relief, 
and the piles will soon find their way back of them- 



124 H A I — H A N 

selves. AcG7i. i maybe given every ten minutes. A 
very important measure in the management of piles 
is to avoid the use of paper after stool, substituting 
li-fien; and to carefully wash the parts with tepid 
water after each action. If possible it should be ar- 
ranged to have the action in the evening just before 
retiring to bed. 

Hair. — Dryness, Kali c. 6, 6h. Falling off, with dry- 
ness, Kali c. 6, 6h. Falling off, Ac. flii07\ 6, gtt. ii. 
6h. Falling off from depressing emotions, Ac. phos. 
I, 6h. 

Hands. — Chapped. — Application of glycerine at night. 
If this is too strong, glycerine jelly (glycerole of 
starch — Wheeler's is one of the best kinds) (i) Nat. 
carb. 12, night and morning; (2) Calc carb. 12, night 
and morning. Should these not suffice. Petrol. 3, 
night and morning; locally, sulphurous acid with gly- 
cerine (two drachms of sulphurous acid to an ounce 
and a half of glycerine) to be applied at night. Fail- 
ing this, paint the chaps every night with compound 
tincture of benzoin (Friar's Balsam). 

BivUKNEss AND CoivDXEss. 5<f^ Chilblaliis. 

Pains in. — Drawing pains in wrist and fingers, with 
stiffness of fingers. Caul, i, 4h. Boring in first joints 
of thumbs, also tearing and sticking in the finger 
joints, with tenderness of the periosteum when 
pressed on. Ledum 6, 4h. Bones in back of the 
hands and wrists painful as if bruised, in rest and 
motion, RtUa i, 4h. Sprained pains in the wrists, 
tearing in all the finger joints, worse at rest, Rhus 
tox. 3, 4h. Spindle-shaped swelling of the fingers, 
stiffness and pain on moving, Puis. 3, 4h. Hot, pale 
swelling of finger joints, worse by motion, Bry. 
I, 2h. 



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Perspiration of. — Palms constantly moist, Ac.fluor. 
3, gtt. ii. 6h. Cold, clammy perspiration, Ac. p c 
3, gti. ii. 6n. 

SwELiviNG. — Acute, inflammatory, Apis 3X, 2h. With 
numbness at climacteric, Arg. n 6, 4I1. With flush- 
ing, Ferr. phos. 3, gr. ii. 6h. 

Hay Asthma or Hay Fever. — in general, Naphthalin 
3x, 2h. Violent sneezing with lachrymation, red- 
ness and swelling of eyelids, contractive stupefying 
headache, Sabad. 3X — 30, 4h.; the same dilution to be 
snuffed up the nostrils, or a spray of Sabad. ^ 5^- ^^ 
Jiii. of water. With fever and prostration, Arsen. 
3, 6h. As a prophylactic, Ai''s. 3, 8h. for a week or 
two before the hay-season begins, and a week or two 
after. Constitutional, in psoric subjects, great sensi- 
tiveness to cold air, desire to lie down, Psorin. 30, 
2 — 4h. 

Headache. — As to Character and Position. — In fore- 
head and temples, y}^/;/<?i"-S' and throbbing ,\i^2My droop- 
ing eyelids, blindness or flashes of light; flushed 
face, hot head, sense of burning in eyeballs; all the 
symptoms aggravated by light, noise, movement, or 
lying down, easiest when sitting, Bell, 3, ih Sick 
headache or migraine; drawing, tearing, pressive 
pains; intolerance of light; disturbances of vision, 
Kali carb. 6, J^h. during an attack, 8h. during the 
interv^als. Pressive headache, as if everything would 
come out at the forehead; or as if the scalp were 
compressed all over by a pitch cap; blind headache; 
supra-orbital headache; squeezing in forehead above 
root of nose; face pale or livid and anxious, Aeon. 3, 
j^h. Headache over one eye, especially right; before 
headache comes on sight is blurred, the sight im- 
proving when the pain begins, Kali bich 5, 2h. 
Headache on coughing as if the skull would burst; 



126 HE A 

bursting,//^// headache; constant pressing headache 
above the root of the nose, together with some 
stitches through the ear and over the eye; sticking 
headache; throbbing in one or other temple; 
drawing, tearing headache, Caps. 3, i — 4h. Over 
left eye, with acidity and eructations, Carb. v. 6, 4h. 
As if the top of the head were opening and shutting; 
or as if the calvarium were being lifted off; head- 
ache with flatulence, throbbing of occiput, Cann. I. 
3, 4h. Heavy presstve headache, with giddiness, 
flushed face, derangement of stomach as after over- 
eating or drinking or smoking, constipation; in- 
creased by taking food and on mental exertion, Nux 
V. 3, 2h. Sick headache in persons of spare build, 
costive habit, and sedentary life, Nux v. 3, ih. Dull 
heavy pains in the head, especially at the vertex, 
wdth throbbing in the temples, drooping eyelids, 
heavy eyes, giddiness. Gels. 3,2h. Bursting, splitti?ig, 
p7'essive headache in forehead, across the eyes, 
relieved by pressure, greatly aggravated by stooping, 
which causes a sensation as if the brain would fall 
out; sick headache of right side with retching and 
bilious vomiting, Bry. 3, 2h. Headache from sun- 
stroke or exposure to heat, violent throbbing, made 
worse by every movement, flushed face; bursting 
headache, Glon. 3, ih. Headache from exposure 
to sun, feeling of constriction and fulness, pressive 
headache at vertex, especially with menstrual de- 
rangements, or at the menopause, Cad. g. 3, 2h 
Headache, as if the head were swelling to a great 
size, Bov. 6, 2h. Heavy, dull pressing in forehead, 
incapacitating from mental labour, Aloe 3, 2h. Con- 
stant dull frontal headache from liver derangement. 
Leptand. i, 2h. Pressive headache at the vertex, 
Ac. pho. I, 2h. Pain like 2l heavy weight at the top 
of the head, aching and burning in the temples and 
above the eyes, pain in the eyes, congestion, lachry- 



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mation, intolerance of light and sound, PhelL 3, 4h. 
Burning sensation at the top of the head; supra- 
orbital headache ; periodical ; accompanied by 
debility, red tongue, low, feverish condition, AfS. 
3, 2h. Supra - orbital neuralgic headache, dim 
vision, Chini?i. sulph, 3, 4h. Headache coming on 
in the mornifig on waking, and lasting the greater 
part of the day; headache brought on by coughing^ 
Nat. tn. 6, 4h. Burning vertex headaches of the 
menopause; one-sided sick headache, with pale face. 
Lack. 6, 4h. Weight and oppression at vertex, with 
cold feet and flushing of the face; dull but severe 
pain in the fore part of the side of the head, with great 
depression, Naja 6, 2h. I?ull headaches, with de- 
pressed spirits and constipation, Plumb. 6, 4h. Head- 
aches from loss of sleep, mental strain, worry; aching 
at the vertex, occiput^ and in eyeballs ^ Act. r. 3, 2h. 
Headache beginning in the occiput^ extending for- 
wards and downwards, causing obscuration of sight; 
shooting pain up spine into head, Ac. pic. 3, 4h. Con- 
stant dull Siching in the nape of the neck, Hell. n. 3, 
2h. Pressive aching in limited spots; pressure at 
centre of forehead and root of nose; headache from 
worry, anxiety or grief; ^^ clavus,^^ pressive sick 
headaches, with disturbance of vision, passing off 
with a copious discharge of clear urine, face pale, 
Ign. 3, 2h. Headache, beginning with a blur before 
the eyes, dull, heavy, or throbbing and shooting in 
the forehead and up the right side, with nausea, 
vomiting, and great depression. Iris v. 3, 2h. Pres- 
sive headache on the right side and over the right 
eye, Chel. i, 2h. One-sided sick headache, pain com- 
ing from back of head, and settling in right eye, re- 
lieved by lying down and by sleep, accompanied 
by bilious vomiting; aching of teeth and in ears; 
pains in the limbs, electric shootings in the head, 



128 H E A 

and shiverings (menses profuse), Sang, i, 2h. Sick 
headache^ with vomiting, as in sea-sickness, Cocc. 
I. 3, 2h. Sick headache^ with violent vomiting, 
Zincum sulph. 6, 2h. sSzV/^ headache^ with coldness 
of the head, much acid in the eructations and vomit, 
Calc. acet. 3, 2h. Chronic headache^ with sensitive- 
ness to pressure, noise, motion and light, relieved 
by warmth (as by wrapping the head in a shawl); 
chronic headache, with nervousness and loss of mem- 
ory from overwork, commencing low in the back of 
the neck with a feeling as if the muscles could not 
support the head, passing over to the top of the 
head, forehead, and at times involving the eyeballs 
and making them sore, Silic. 6, 4h. Boring pain at 
the root of the nose, rheumatic headache, where the 
pressure of the hat is not tolerated. Hep. s. 6, 4h. 
Chronic headaches with melancholia. Zinc. 6, 4h. 
Headache like neuralgia^ especially on left side, 
pain coming at regular intervals, spreading from 
the brow to the face and neck, and involving the 
eyes, aggravated by the least concussion or motion, 
especially stooping; pale face, restlessness, palpita- 
tion, Spig. 3, 2h. Headache of passive congestion 
after great losses of blood, Fer. pyrophos. ix, gtt. iii. 
4h. Jerking, tearing pains in the head; the brain 
beats in waves against the skull; sensitiveness, noises 
in the ears, made worse by walking, relieved *by 
lying down. Chin, i, 2h. Pressive drawing pains in 
the head, iiitolej^able^ worse when attention is directed 
to them, Cham. 6, 2h 

According To Cause and Occasion — On coughing, 
as if the skull would burst, Caps. 3, 4h. Headache 
caused by every cough, Nat. m. 6, 4h.. In the occi- 
put, on coughing, Sul. 6, 4h. From over-eating or 
drinking, Nux z^. 3, 4h. From sunstroke, violent 
throbbing, Glon. 3, ih. ^rom. sunstroke, as if a tight 



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band were bound round the head, Cad. 3, ih. From 
liver derangement, constant dull frontal headache, 
Leptand. i, 4h. Alternating with diarrhoea, Pod. 3, 
2h. Burning vertex headache of the inenopause, 
Lack. 6, 4h. Headache after checked menses, ^thus 
c. 3, 4h. Headache from pain in other parts; or 
congestion after great losses of blood, Ferr. pyrophos. 
IX, gtt. iii. 4h. Pain in head on shaking it, Hep. 
6, 4h 

Head Lice. — The hair to be washed daily, and after 
each washing to be bathed with a lotion of Saba- 
dilla <E>, an ounce to the pint. Internally give Nat. m. 
6, 4h. 

Hearing. See Ears: Dkafnkss. 

Heart. — PKRICardio^is. — if taken at the very commence- 
ment, pain, oppression, anxiety, restlessness, fever. 
Aeon. 3, ih. After Aeon., pain sharp, worse on 
motion, Bry. i, 3h. lyittle fever, much effusion, 
Merc, s. 3, gr. ii. 2h. Effusion remaining behind 
after the acute symptoms have passed, Arsen 3, 2h. 
Pericarditis secondary to Bright' s disease. Arsen. 
3, 2h. 

Endocarditis. — Stitching pain in chest, anxiety, rest- 
lessness, fever, Aco. 3, ih.; sharp, shooting pains in 
the region of the heart, palpitation, restlessness, 
Spig. 3, ih. Ulcerative, Lach. 6, ih. Valvular affec- 
tions remaining after the acute stage is past, Naja 
6, 4h. 

Hypertrophy, Sufi^ering from. — When the hyper- 
trophy has been brought on by prolonged over-exer- 
tion, as in athletes. Am. 3, 4h. [When the hyper- 
trophy is secondary to valve-disease, it is really com- 
pensatory an^ not a morbid condition; but then it 
sometimes gives rise to great distress, which may be 



I30 H E A 

removed by treatment as indicated.] Feeling of 
weight at the heart, palpitation, strong beats, throb- 
bing in the carotid and temporal arteries, Aco?i. 3, 
2h. Violent palpitation, feel worse on lying on the 
the back, increased by excitement, motion, rising up 
suddenly or walking; throbbing of the temporal 
arteries, flushed face, headache at the vertex. Cad. 
3, 2h. Much palpitation, felt in the throat, full 
pulse, sleeplessness and restlessness at night, Bell. 3, 
2h. See also Pai^pitation. 

D11.ATAT10N AND Weakness of the Heart-muscIvE 
(whether consequent on valvular disease, or due to 
general debility, or to primary fatty degeneration of 
the muscular fibres). In general, especially if co-ex- 
istent with respiratory aff'ections, Ars. tod. 3X, gr. ii. 
thrice daily, immediately after food. [If this fails to 
give any relief, it should be left off entirely and the 
medicines to be named given as indicated.] Great 
weakness, anxiety, long-lasting palpitation, Baryt. 
carb. 3x, gr. ii., 6h. Slow pulse, intermittent or 
irregular, palpitation on the slightest movement, 
breathlessness, pallor and f aintness on sitting up. Dig. 
I, 4h. Palpitation and fainting fits, worse on move- 
ment or stooping, Thyr. 3x,,gr.ii. — 30, 4h. Constric- 
tive feeling at the chest, violent palpitation, Cad. 3, 
4h. Degeneration of under muscle; small, frequent, 
irregular pulse ; dyspnoea; oedema; nervous palpita- 
tion and arrest of breathing; loathing of food, vomit- 
ing, distaste for alcohol, Stroph. 6, gtt. i— v. 3X, 4±i. 
Pains about the heart, followed by palpitation, " sink- 
ing ' ' sensation at the pit of the stomach, Ad. r. 3, 
4h. Darting, stabbing, shooting, or lancinating pain 
at the heart, passing down the left arm, Spigel. 3, 4h. 
Pain at the heart and down the left arm, with numb- 
ness, palpitation, faintness, Naja 6, 4h. 



HE A 131 

Fatty HkarT. — The treatment of fatty degeneration 
is the same as that for DiIvATation. For deposit of 
fat about the heart as a part of general obesity, Phos. 
3, 4h , with suitable regimen and diet. After this, 
Baryt. c. 3X, gr. ii. 6h. When the symptoms are 
such as indicate degeneration, the medicines recom- 
mended for DiIvATaTion may be given as indicated. 

Nkrvous Wkaknkss. — From excessive use of stimu- 
lants and tobacco^ pain at the heart, depression, pal- 
pitation, nervousness, without any signs of structural 
lesion, Spig. i — 30, 4h. Palpitation worse on walk- 
ing; when lying on left side at night; dull, heavy 
pains, worse by slight excitement; constriction as if 
heart grasped by iron hand; very acute pain, stitches 
that cause weeping and crying aloud, with obstruc- 
tion of breathing; pricking pains at heart, impeding 
respiration and movements of body, Cact. 3, 4h. 
Heavy sensation; uneasiness; great pain near heart; 
depression, lowness; Naja 6, 4h. Violent beating) 
throbbing in carotids, felt only when lying in bed or 
during a siesta; hurried, pressing feeling, relieved 
when busy; interrupted pulsations of heart and 
breathing; dull, heavy, or pressive pain in region of 
heart; heaviness; palpitation when lying on left side; 
pain in left side, as if the heart were suddenly 
gripped, waking from sleep; pressive pains; sharp 
pain, Lil. t. 30, 8h. Pain in region of heart before 
and during menses; and before and during urination, 
Lith, c, 6, 8h. 

Pai^piTaTion. — [This a symptom of the most kinds of 
heart disease. The cases now considered are those 
where there is no structural disorder to be made out, 
or where palpitation is the chief trouble complained 
of.] Palpitation in a heart that retains its vigour. 
Acq, 3, 2h. From indigestion; worse after eating. 



132 H E A — H E C 

flatulence after eating, constipation, Nux v. 3, 2h. 
From indigestion in females or blonde persons, acid- 
ity, bowels inclined to be loose, Puis. 3, 2h. With 
excessive flatulence in the stomach after food, re- 
lieved by eructations, Carb. V. 6, 2h. Palpitation and 
irregular action, Iberis 3, 4h. Nervous palpitation, 
during the paroxysm, Mosch. 3, every twenty min- 
utes. Palpitation and fainting, exceedingly rapid 
action, Thyr. 2^. gr. ii. — 30, 4h. Nervous palpita 
tion in persons of great impressionability, worse at 
night in bed, palpitation keeping the patient awake, 
Ign. 3, 2h. Palpitation on the least excitement, es- 
pecially at the change of life. Lack. 6, 2h. Palpita- 
tion with ''sinking" sensation at the pit of the 
stomach, and great uneasiness, sleeplessness. Act. r. 
3, 2h. Palpitation with tightness across the prae- 
cordia. Cad. 3, 2h. Palpitation with shooting, cut- 
ting pain in the region of the heart, Spigel. 3, 2h. 
Palpitation on slight exertion; with full, throbbing 
headache, flushed face, great sensibility to light and 
noise, Bell. 3, 2h. Palpitation when lying down in 
bed at night, or after food, Nat. in. 6, 2h. See also 

Aneurism, Angina, Pectoris, Dropsy, Cardiac, 
&c. 

Heartburn.-— Simple, Arg. n. 6, 4h. With white tongue, 
loaded urine, flatulence and constipation. Lye. 6, 4h. 
With loaded tongue, flat taste, bov/els loose. Puis. 3, 
4h. During an attack. Caps. 3, every fifteen min- 
• utes. When due to acidity, ^^(f 2^;2^^r Acidity. See 
also Dyspepsia. 

Heat Spots.— v4/»2'^ 3^, 4^. 

Hectic Fever. — in consumption, with moist and coated 
tongue, Baptis. i, 2h. In consumption, with dry 
tongue, Ars. 3, 2h. [These medicines may be given 
intercurrently with others which may be indicated 



H E L — H E R 133 

by symptoms other than those of fever.] In cases of 
prolonged suppuration, Chin. 3, 2h. In septicaemia, 
Chinin. arsen. 3X, gr. i, 4h. 

Helminthiasis. See Worms. 

Hemicrania. See Headache. 

•Hemiopia. — Vanishing of the right half of objects, LitJi, 
c. 6, 4h. Vanishing of the left half, Lye. 6, 4h. Van- 
ishing of either vertical half, Ac. mur. 6, 4h. Van- 
ishing of the upper half, Aur. 6, 4h. 

Hemiplegia, See Apoplexy and Paralysis. 
Hepatalgia. See Liver, Pain in. 
Hepatitis. See Liver, Infi^ammation of. 

Hernia. — [in chronic cases, a truss will be required; in 
strangulation operation must not be delayed; but in 
the absence of a surgeon relief may be given by the 
timely internal administration of medicine. The 
effect of posture will, of course, be studied. The 
patient wt.11 be made to lie on the back with the hips 
raised above the level of the shoulders.] Pain in an 
old hernia, Nuxv. i, 4h. Threatened strangulation, 
Nux V. I, every ten minutes ; the lower part of the 
body to be raised). Hernia in children, if fat, Calc. 
c. 6, 8h. ; in thin rickety children, Silic. 6, 8h. If the 
child has pain in the hernia, Nicx v. 3, ih. Inguinal 
hernia with cutting and neuralgic pains up right side, 
^sciil.h. I, 4h. [In umbilical hernia a pad must be 
used, and the skin drawn by strips of plaster from 
both sides so as to make it lap over the tumour, which 
will then contract. The best method of preventing 
hernia in children is to avoid the use of the binder, 
and dress the children on somci such plan as that of 
Dr. Grosvenor, of Lincoln, Nebraska, U. S. A. 



134 H E R — H I P 

Herpes. — Of face, Rhus. t. 3, 2I1. Of prepuce, Merc, sol, 
6, 4h. 

Herpes Circinatus, or iTis^—Tellur, 6, 4h. 

Herpes Zoster (Shingles). — in persons below middle 

life, Rhus t. 3, 2h. In older persons, Mezer. 3, 2h. 
Chronic cases, Arsen. 3, 4I1. If the pain is intract- 
able, Pru. spi. 30, 8h. [Locally, in all cases, a lotion 
of Canth. 3X. ten drops to the ounce, may be kept 
applied on linen. Or, the eruption may be painted 
over with collodion.] 

Hiccough — Ordinary acute cases, Nux v, 3, ever}- ten 
minutes. If Nux does not speedily relieve, Cyclam. 
3, every ten minutes; in chrouic cases every four 
hours. After drinking, eating, or smoking, Ign, 3, 
every ten minutes. With spasm and belching, Cic, 
vir. 3, every ten minutes. Spasmodic, ^thus. c. 3, 
4h. Violent hiccough, especially in malarial cases, 
Nat. m. 6, 4h. In hysterical cases, Moschus 3, every 
ten minutes. [The sames medicines may be given 
three or four times a day, during the intervals between 
the attacks, the medicines being chosen according to 
the indications given.] In obstinate cases, (i) Ac. 
hydrocy. i, 2h.; (2) Ac. sulph, 3X, 4h. 

Hip-joint Disease. — The same treatment as for Cariks: 
see under Bone. Rest and extension so long as the 
disease remains active; diet of the most nourishing 
kind; cod liver oil. Bacil. 30 — 200 gl. iv. once a 
week. For the Fkvkr attending the disease, if there 
is restlessness, anxiet}^, thirst, dry skin. Aeon. 3, 2h. 
If the fever is of a hectic type, Ac. phos. i, 2h. If 
there is profuse discharge and hectic fever, China i, 
2h. Sharp pain from hip to knee, especially of right 
side, Kali carb. 30, 8h. Coxalgia, Arg. met. 3x, gr^ 
I, 4h. See also Joints. 



H O A — H Y D 135 

Hoarseness. See Voice. 

Hodgkin's Disease (Ivymphadenoma).— (i) Aco. 3, 8h; 
(2j Calc fluor. 6, 8h.; (3) Kali 7nur, 3, gr. ii. 8h. 
When the spleen is enlarged, Nat. m. 6, Sh When 
there is fever, Arsen 3, 8h. A course of Baryt. tod., 
Ars. iod. and Ferr. iod.^ each in 3X gr. ii., given 
thrice daily for one or two weeks. [The constitu- 
tional symptoms of the patient will be the best guide 
to the remedy in treating this affection ] 

Home-sickness. — Red cheeks and sleeplessness, Caps. 
3, 4h. Much weeping, Mag. mur. 6, 4h. After these, 
Ac, phos. 3, 4h 

Hooping-Cough. See Whooping-cough. 

Hordeolum. See Stye. 

Housemaid's Knee.— Acute— (i) ^//^3x, 2h.; {i)Sticta 

p. I, 2h. Chronic, Rhus t. 3, 4h; locally, a lotion 
of the same {Rhus t. 3X, one drachm to the ounce). 
If this fails, Kali iod. gr. ii. 8h; locally, a lotion of 
Kali iod. (five grains to the ounce). 

Hunger See Appetite. 

Hunger Pest. See Relapsing Fever 

Hydrocele. — Congenital, Bry. 3, 4h. In acquired hydro- 
cele, the following medicines may be given in their 
order, each being tried for a few weeks before being 
changed — (i) Bry. 3, 4h ; (2) Rhodo. 3, 4h. ; (3) Puis. 
3, 4h. ; (4) Sil. 6, 6h.; (5) Aurum 6, 4h.; (6) Graph. 6, 
4h. [The desirability or otherwise of operation will 
be considered in each case.] 

Hydrocephalus. — Acute (TubkrcuIvAr or Simpi^e). — 
Bacil. 100, gl. iv. on tongue, a single dose to be fol- 
lowed with other medicines as indicated, if this is not 



136 H Y D 

sufficieiit to complete the cure. If BaciL acts at all 
it acts rapidly; no other medicines should be given 
so long as improvement is progressive. Flushed face, 
restlessness, bright eyes, dilated pupils, boring head 
into pillow, rolling it from side to side; starting from 
sleep in fright, convulsions, hothead, cold feet. Bell, 
3, ih. Face flushed, or alternately flushed and pale, 
fontanelle open and projecting, slightest attempt to 
move the child makes it cry, Bry. 3, ih. Hot head, 
perspiring, feet clammy and cold, especially in fat, 
flabby children, sour vomiting, sour green stools, 
cannot bear to be moved, Calc. c. 30, ih., till relieved, 
then less often Boring head in pillow, rousing, 
from sleep with shrill, piercing cry, scanty urine. 
Apis 3x — 30, ih A t^r Apis, if this is not sufficient, 
after suppressed eruption, child lies in stupor, cold 
sweat on forehead, jerking of limbs, Siclph. 30, ih , 
till relieved. When torpor predominates, child asks 
for nothing, but drinks greedily when given water, 
fontanelle prominent, urine suppressed. Helleb. 3, ih. 
Chronic. — After sappressed eruptions, child objects 
to be washed and washing aggravates, stupor, jerking 
of limbs, hot head, cold feet, Sul. 30, 8h. Acid vom- 
iting and purging, perspiration of head and face, 
cold and clammy feet and legs, child cannot bear to 
be moved, Calc, c. 30, 8h. 

Spurious. — Arising in children from exhausting dis- 
eases, such as diarrhoea, Phos. 3 ah. Should this 
not suffice, Zinc. mur. 6, 2h. 

Hydrophobia. — immediately' after the bite suck the 
wound, and whilst sucking, press the parts around in 
the direction of the wound. After everything possi- 
ble has been drawn from the wound, the best rem- 
edy is heat — whatever is handiest — red-hot iron or 
coals, or a lighted cigar, to be brought as near the 



HYD— HYP 137 

wound as possible without causing violent pains and 
without burning the skin — as close, in fact, as the 
patient can bear it. Several pieces should be put in 
the fire so that one can be used as another cools. 
The skin around the wound may be smeared with 
oil, or fat, or soap, or saliva to protect it. All that 
oozes from the wound should be wiped away. The 
applications should be repeated three or four times a 
day, for an hour each time or until shuddering ap- 
pears, and this should be repeated several days. 
Afterwards the patient should take daily one or more 
Turkish or Russian baths for a fortnight. Lyssin 30 
should be taken three times a day for a week, and 
then Bell. 3 night and morning for six months at 
least. If, in spite of all precautions, the disease 
should show itself, the patient should at once be re- 
moved to a Turkish bath, or placed in a Russian bath 
and kept in it. Bell, ix should be given hypodermi- 
cally every half hour, and afterwards, should Bell. 
not succeed. Strain, ix — 12, every half hour in the 
same way. If there is excessive sensitiveness and the 
patient wants to tear the clothing away from his 
throdt. Lack. 6, ^h. If the characteristic spasm of 
the throat at the sight or sound of water, bright ob- 
ject or draught of air is marked, Lyssifi 30, j^h. 

Hydrothorax. — Kffusion left hehind after inflammation, 
if the inflammation has been recent, Apis 3X, 3h. 
If the effusion is of any standing, Sulph. 3, 4h. 
When secondary to heart disease, Arsen iod. 3X, gr. 
ii. three times a day immediately after food. 
Anxiety, thirst, chilliness, prostration, Ars. 3, 2h. 
See also Pleurisy. 

Hyperpyrexia. — When the bodily temperature becomes 
so high as of itself to threaten life (106° F. and up- 
wards), in addition to internal remedies, cold pack- 
10 



138 HYP 

ing and cold bathing should be resorted to. The 
cold wet-pack should be tried first. The patient 
should be kept in for half an hour, and the pack re- 
peated every two or three hours if the temperature 
again rises. Should the pack not succeed in reduc- 
ing the temperature, the patient may be sponged 
with ice-water. If no amelioration follows, the 
patient should be put into a bath at 95° F.; and this 
should be gradually cooled to 70° F. The patient 
should be kept in the water for twenty minutes. The 
internal remedies will be those indicated by the 
patient's general state. In general. Camphor 
(Rubini's Tincture) gtt. iii. in syrup, every half -hour. 
If the skin is dry, and there is restlessness and 
anxiety, Aeon, i, 15m. If the fever is of a low type 
with muttering busy delirium, picking at the bed 
clothes, Agar. ^, 2h. Quarrelsome delirium, dilated 
pupils, photophobia, flushed face, perspiration, hard 
full pulse, Verat. v. ix, ih. Rheumatic fever, pain 
in joints of vertebrae, especially in the nape of the 
neck and at the back of the head, Act. r. ix, ih. 
Flushed face, bright eyes, active delirium. Bell, i, 
^h. See also Rheumatism : Acutk. 

Hypochondriasis. — When secondary to disordered diges- 
tion, with constipation, Nux v. 3, 4h. In unhealthy 
subjects, earthy camplexion, constipation, great de- 
pression, Nat.m. 6, 4h. In syphilitic subjects, ^z^r. 
mur. 3x, 4h. From spermatorrhoea, Act. r. ix, 4h. 
Hypochondriacal monomania, as syphilophobia, Hyo. 
3, 4h. From forced sexual abstinence. Con. 3, 4h. 
Abdominal spasms and diaphragmatic pains; intoler- 
able uneasiness; abdominal pains relieved by walk- 
ing, which, however J soon tires, compelling to rest, 
rest causing the pains to return, Stann. 6, 4h. Ner- 
vousness, excitement, sleeplessness, Valer. 3, 4h. 
Where the pains are described as burning, red tongue, 



HYS — IMP 139 

thirst, Arsen. 3, 4h. Anxious about salvation, sink- 
ing at the stomach in forenoon, dejected appearance, 
loss of memory, Sul. 6, 4h. See also Depression of 
Spirits. 

Hysteria. — in the paroxysm, Mosch. 3, every fifteen 
minutes. Great impressionabihty, capriciousness, 
rapidly alternating mental states, "lump" in the 
throat, effects of worry, Ign. 3, 4h. Great de- 
pression, Plat. 6, 4h. " Lump " in the throat, hys- 
terical cough and asthma, distension of the body, 
Asaf. 3, 4h. Convulsive hysteria, Tarent. 3, 4h. 
Nervous excitement and sleeplessness, Valer. 3, 4h. 

Hysterical Joint. — Recent, Ign. 3, 4h. if this does not 
succeed, Cham 6, 4h. In more chronic cases, Argent, 
met. 3, gr. ii. 4h. 

Hysterical Vomiting.— A>^a5, 3, ih. 

Hystero-Epilepsy. — During the attacks, Moschus 3, 
every five or ten minutes. During the intervals, 
Zinc, valer. 3, 4h. 

Ichthyosis.— (i) Thyr. gr. v. 3X. gt. iii, or 30, 8h; (2) 
y^r^. 3, 4h.; (3) Hydrocot. t^, /\h. [Locally, Turkish 
bath and shampooing; friction with cod-liver oil, or 
with Oleum, theobromatis or cocoa butter.] 

Impetigo. — Of the face (milk crust), recent. Viol. trie. 3, 
4th. [Locally, in all cases, only rain water, or distilled 
water, with a few drops of Sanitas put into it, to be 
used for washing. ] Milk crust, where there are burn- 
ing pains, Cicut. v. 3, 4h. More chronic cases. Ant. 
tart. 6, 4h. Impetigo of the head, Calc. m.ur. ix, 4h. 
(6'^^ ^/^C) Eczema of the scalp). General impetigo, 
Ant. tart. 6, 4h. ; cod-liver oil and nourishing diet. 

Impotence. — When there is a history of an injury or 



I40 I N C — I N F 

blow, Am. 3, 4I1. From an injury to the spine, Hy- 
perlc. IX, 4h..; locally, liniment consisting of equal 
parts of Hyperic. 4), spirit of wine and distilled water 
to be rubbed on the injured part night and morn- 
ing. Simple impotence, Agn. cast. 3, 4h. Impo- 
tence with wasting of the testicles, Kali, hroni. 3X, 
4h. When due to sexual excess, Ac. phos. i , gtt. ii. 
6h. When accompanied by general nervous depres- 
sion and irritability, digestive disorders, aud consti- 
pation, Nux V. 3, 4h. Should these not succeed, 
(i) Selen. 6, 4h. (2) Bufo sah. 30 — 200, night and 
morning. 

Incontinence of Urine. See Urine. 

Indigestion. See Dyspepsia. 

Influenza. See Cold, 

Infi^uenza, Epidemic (Russian or Siberian In- 
fluenza). — Aching in all limbs, headache, pains in 
eyes, foul tongue, fever, restlessness, with general 
soreness of body, heaviness and drowsiness, Bapt. 
3x — 30, ih. Violent throbbing, bursting headache; 
bursting headache with cough, Glon. 3 — 30, ih. 
Headache, sore throat, teasing, tickling cough, worse 
on lyiug down, delirium; neuralgia, especially on 
right side of head and face, inflammation of the 
ears. Bell. 3 — 30, ih. After Bell, or when sup- 
puration occurs, Merc. sol. 6 — 30, ih. Cough aggra- 
vated by least movement, pain in head with cough; 
pains in limbs or body, aggravated by movement; 
foul, wash-leather-like tongue; thirst, Bry. 3X — 30, 
ih. Cough, with blood-streaked expectoration, diffi- 
cult to detach, cannot get breath; pains worse in 
right side, Sang. 3X — 30, ih. Teasing cough, worse 
at night; thirst, restlessness, anguish, fear of death. 
Ars. 3 — 30, ih. Fever, restlessness, fear of death; 



I N F — I N T 141 

pains in region of heart, with pallor and faintness, 
fear of death, Aco?i. 3 — 30, ih. {Aeon may be given 
at night intercurrently with other remedies, when 
there is nocturnal restlessness and sleeplessness,) 
Bronchitis, suspiciously like tuberculosis Aviaire 30, 
ih. Metastases of other symptoms to heart, with pain 
and collapse, Camph. , one drop of Rubini's tincture or 
one pilule every 5 or 10 minu.es. Sharp pain at heart., 
with palpitation and weakness, inability to lie on 
left side, Spigel. i — 30, ^h. Pleuritic pains, worse 
on coughing, cough causing pain in head; tearing 
cough, heat in head, nightly perspiration, early morn- 
ing diarrhoea, Sul. 3 — 30, ih. Morning diarrhoea, 
liver derangement, Pod. 3 — 30, ih. Copious evacua- 
tions, much pain, perspiration and cold sweat on 
forehead, Ver, alb, 3 — 30, ih. Sciatica (r) Rhus. 3X 
— 30, I — 2h. (2) Arsen. sul. rub. 3 — 30, i — 2h. 
Weakness after influenza, (i) Pso^nn, 30, 4h. (2) 
Chi. 3x — 30, 2h. See also for complications under 
various headings Cough, Diarrhoea, Headache, 
Neuralgia, Pleurisy, Pneumonia, Sciatica, &c. 

Infra-Mammary Pain. See Breast. 

In-growing Toe Nail. See Nails. 

Insanity. See Mania, Melancholia. 

Intemperance. See Alcohol Habit. 

Intermittent Fever. — Prophyi^actic. — Persons going 

into malarious districts should take for a short time 
before, Chin, sulph. ix, gr. ii. night and morning, 
and continue the same at increasing intervals during 
their stay. If Quinine'\s> not tolerated, ^r^. 3X should 
be given in the same way. In persons sensitive to 
the action of Arsenic, the third centesimal tritura- 
tion may be given in place of the third decimal. 



142 INT 

The Disease. — [The remedies for intermittent fever 
should be given at the end of a paroxysm when it is 
quite over. A few doses may be given at short in- 
tervals, and this repeated at the end of the next par- 
oxysm if it occurs in milder form or if aggravated. 
If it is unchanged another remedy must be selected] 
Tertian or quartan fevers, thirst before or after the 
chill, often no thirst during chill, pat;ent craves 
warmth but it does him no good, sweat profuse 
and debilitating, attacks usually at 5 A. M. or 5 p. m., 
not in the night, restless the night before an attack; 
darting tearing pains in joints, adapted to lymphatic 
and swarthy persons, debilitated constitution, Chi. 3, 
2h. Tertian fever, chill, heat, never accompanied 
with thirst, pain and tenderness all down spine, Chin, 
sul. 3, 2h. One stage absent; heat of burning char- 
acter; rapid prostration; torpid weakness; drop- 
sical swellings; after the abuse of Quinine^ Arsen. 
3, 2h. Clean tongue, rapid exhaustion by single 
paroxysm, rapid appearance of sallow pallor, Arsen, 
•3, 2h. Dumb ague chills, Arse^i. 3, 6h Chills 
towards evening, little or no sweat; agues of damp, 
warm and low marshy climates, Cedron. 3, 2h, Chill 
between the shoulders, thirst with chill, sweat w4th 
heat, no thirst in heat, aggravation by eating and 
drinking, Caps. 3, 2h. Thirst before chill (which 
usually occurs in the morning), bilious vomiting 
during the paroxysms, scanty perspiration at the 
close, bone pains, Eup. per. 3, 2h Irregular advent 
of chills, beginning in the small of the back and 
running up and down, lips and nails blue, violent 
shaking and comparatively little coldness; during 
the sweat any attempt to move causes a chilliness to 
pass through the body, Eup. purp. 3, 2h. Vomit- 
ing in the paroxysms, especially if they come on in 
the evening or night, Ipec. 3, 2h. (If the symptoms 



I N T — I R R 143 

are not characteristic of any remedy, a few doses of 
Ipec. may be given after an attack. This will 
either remove the disease or bring out charac- 
teristic symptoms which will indicate the remedy.) 
Spots on the lips, thirst before and during the 
chill, headache in the heat and at its close as 
if beaten with little hammers, perspiration, begin- 
ning in the morning; after abuse of quinine, Nat. 
mur. 6, 3h. With gastro-intestmal symptoms, the 
heat preceding or mingling with the chills, Nux v. 
3, 2h. In blonde persons with gastro-intestinal 
symptoms; in chlorotic girls. Puis. 3, 3h. Tendency 
to copious diarrhoea and vomiting, prostration, faint- 
ness, coldness, and sweating, Verat. alb. 3, 2h. Non- 
malarial cases, attack coming on in afternoon, no 
thirstj sensation during the chill as if the hands were 
dead, Apis 3X, 2h. 
The Cachexia. — Sallow pallor, clean red tongue, faint- 
ness; after abuse of quinine, Arsen. 3, 6h. Earthy 
complexion, chilliness, enlarged spleen, constipation, 
headaches beginning in the morning and lasting all 
day; after abuse of quinine, Nat. mur. 6, 6h. En- 
larged and painful spleen, Ceanothus i, 4h. 

Intertrigo. See Excoriation. 

Intestines. — Ui^ceration of. — Duodenum, from burns, 
Kali bich. 3X, gr. ii. 6h. Ulceration of intestines 
with chronic diarrhoea. Kali bich. 3X, gr. ii. 6h. 
Ulceration of large intestine, with slimy, bloody 
stools; in dysentery, Merc, cor, 3, 3h. See also 
Dysentery 

Iritis, See under Eyes. 

Irritation itching worse in bed at night, scratching 
followed by burning, Sul. 3, 4h. Dry skin, great 
irritationj Alumina 6, 4h. Itching, tingling, formi- 



144 I T C 

cation, Ac. sul. i, 4h. Crawling, tingling, and itching 
of the whole body, Morph. 3, 4h. Intolerable itching 
of the whole body, worse on getting warm in bed 
at night, dry skin, Alu'inina 6, 3h. Itching com- 
ing on when the part is exposed to cold, Runiex 
c. 6, 4h. Burning itching in debilitated persons, 
A} s. 3, 4h. Itching as from crawling; after scratch- 
ing, the itching reappears elsewhere; itching of the 
vagina, Mez. 3, 4h. Itching of old people; of the 
vulva, Rhtis. V. 3, 4h. Itching of the urethra, after 
gonorrhoea; itching of the vulva. Ac. nit. i, 4h. 
Itching of the vulva and anus, Ambra 6, 8h. Burn- 
ing or biting itching; inflammation and swelling of 
parts, Kreas. 3, 8h. Violent itching with exfolia- 
tion of skin; psoriasis. Petrol. 3, 8h. Itching of 
genitals, Ac. carbol. 3, 4h; of pudenda before 
menses; of scrotum. Graph. 6, 4h.; of pudenda, with 
swelling, Sep. 6, 4h. Itching after menses, Tarent. 
3, 8h. Itching and burning of pudenda, with erup- 
tion on inner side of thighs during menses, Silic. 6, 
6h. Itching of vulva in pregnancy; with constipa- 
tion and piles, Colli7is. i, 4h. Itching of the vulva,. 
Calad. 3x, 4h. Soreness, itching, burning of female 
genitals, Carb. v., 6, 4h. Heat, itching, and herpetic 
eruptions about the genitals, Diilc. J, 4h. With in- 
flammation of the labia — (i) Apis 2^^^ 2h.; (2) Cocc. 
cact. 3, 2h. Itching of the mons veneris, Bej^b. ix, 
4h. Itching of .the anus, Lye. 6, 4h. [When the 
skin becomes harsh and irritable, and especially 
when violent irritation of mons veneris and pudenda 
sets in without apparent cause, it may be a symptom 
of diabetes, and sugar should always be tested for. J 
See also Anus : Itching. 

Itch. — In genuine cases of parasitic itch the parts affected 
may be painted over with Oil of Lavender, or rubbed 
at bedtime with Balsam oj Peru. One or two appli- 



J A U - J O I 145 

cations will be sufficient. If this does not suffice, 
inunction with SiUphii^ ointme^it every night; hot 
bath with soap, followed by change of bed- and body- 
linen every second night. Internally, Sulph. 3 — 30, 
4h., to be followed, if necessary, with Psor. 30, 8h. 

Jaundice. — Simple, from catarrh of the bile-ducts. Pain 
in liver and inability to lie on right side Merc, sol^ 
6, 4h. Sharp pains in liver, relief from lying on 
right side, Bry. 3, ih. Yellow stools, pains under 
angle of right scapula, Chel. 1, ih. From fright or a 
fit of anger, Cham. 6, 2h. With congested liver, 
white stools, Chi. 3, 4h. Malignant jaundice (as in 
acute 3^ellow atrophy), Phos. 3, 2h. From blood 
disorganization (as in yellow fever), Crot. h. 3, 2h. 
Chronic, not due to obstruction, lod. 3, 2h. With 
much irritation; or irritation after, Dolichos pruriens, 
3x, i-2h. 

Neonatorum. — (i) Cham. 6, 2h,; (2) Merc. s. 6, 2h. 

Jaw. — Caries or necrosis, Phos. 3, 4h. After Phos. or 
when from phosphorus poisoning, Sil. 6, 4h. Growth 
of bone, epulis (11 Thuja 3X, 4h, (2) Plu^nh. ac. 3, 
4h. Easily dislocated, feeling as if dislocated, Pet. 
3, 4h. Cracking in the joint, Rhus t. 3, 4h. Painful 
cracking in the joint, Granat. 3, 4h. Pain in joint 
as if sprained, on swallowing, Arum tri. 12, 4h. (if 
given in a low attenuation this should be freshly 
prepared) . 

Joints. — Pain in, coxalgia, neuralgia, " hysterical joint," 
— (i) Arg. met. 6, 4h.; (2) Zhic. 6, 4h. See also 
Hysterical Joint. 

Acute Synovitis. — In rheumatic subjects, fever, 
restlessness, anxiety, pain, Aco. 3, ih. Pain W'Orse 
with every movement, part sensitive to touch, Bry. 



146 J O I 

3, ih. In women and children, pain aggravated by 
heat, relieved by cold, Puis. 3, ih. Where there 
is much svi^eiling and little pain. Apis 3X, 2h. 
When suppuration has taken place. Hep. 6, 4h. (ex- 
ternally, a lotion of Hep. 6, a teaspoonful to a wine- 
glassful of distilled water). Where discharge has 
commenced, Sil. 6, 4h. (externally a lotion oi Sil. 6, 
a teaspoonful to a wineglassful of distilled water). 

Chronic Synovitis. — Syphilitic or mercurial, Kali 
iod. gr. iii. 6h. Rheumatic, Merc. sol. 6, 4h. Of the 
knee, Berb. ix, 4h. Of the right knee, Ac. benz. 3, 
4h. Dropsy of the joint, Iod. 3X, gtt. ii. 4h. 

ScROFuivOUS Synovitis (Whitk Swei.i.ing). — [In all 
cases where it is tolerated, cod-liver oil should be 
given, beginning with a teaspoonful twice or three 
times a day immediately after food; it may be in- 
creased in quantity as toleration is established.] 
Bacill. 30 — 200 gl. iv. , once a week. In fat subjects of 
soft fibre, subject to cold clammy feet, heat of the 
head with perspiration, Calc. c. 30, 8h. Barly in the 
disease in patients of blonde type and mild disposi- 
tion, pain, aggravated by heat. Puis. 3, 4h. In thin 
rickety subjects, offensive perspiration, especially 
about the head or feet, symptoms relieved by wrap- 
ping up warmly, Sil. 30, 8h After Sil.; emaciation, 
numbness of the limbs, inability to lie on left side, 
Phos. 3, 8h. In strumous subjects with enlarged 
tonsils, Calc, phos. 3X, gr. ii. 6h. Where there is 
marked want of animal heat. Led. 6, 4h. Dry skin, 
anxiety, fever, and restlessness, Aco. 3, 2h. Hectic, 
Ac. phos. I, 2h. 

Bursitis See Housemaid's Knee. 

OANG1.10N. See Ganglion. See also Gout, Rheil- 
matism, Hip, Knee, &c. 



JOY- LAB 147 

Joy, Effects of Excessive —Coff. 3, ih. 

Kidneys. — ConGESTiox. — In early stage, with feverish 
symptoms, flushed face, Bell. 3, ih. Suppression of 
urine, bloody urine, after scarlatina, Tereb. 3, ih. 

Bright's Disease. — Incipient, with dropsy. Apis 3X, 
ih. Inflammation of the kidneys with suppression 
of urine, as after scarlatina, Canth. 3, ih. Tubular 
nephritis (especially after scarlatina), albuminuria, 
tube-casts, dropsy, thirst for cold water, anxiety, 
desire for warmth, Ars. 3, 2h. Nephritis of preg- 
nancy; suppurative nephritis, Merc, <:. 3, 2h. Chronic 
BrighVs Disease: Prostration, restlessness, anxiety, 
thirst, cool skin, internal heat, dropsy, Ars. 3, 4h. 
Pale bloated appearance, chilly, vomiting of food or 
passing it undigested, fulness of the head, nose- 
bleeding, irritable patients, Ferr. '}net. 6, 8h. Fever, 
headache, irritation of the bladder and frequent 
desire to pass water, Ferr. phos. 3, gr. ii. 8h. Gran- 
ular degeneration, gouty kidney, pale, bloated, heavy 
expression, melancholy disposition, costiveness, 
Plumb. 6, 4h. Exclusive milk diet: see Diet. 

See also Urine. 

Knee. — Pain, swelling, dryness, or cracking, especially 
of right knee, Ac. benz. 3, 4h. Stiffness, soreness, 
pain as if beaten, swelling, Berb. ix, 4h. Coldness of 
knees, Agn. c. 3, 4h Knees sink down from weak- 
ness, cracking in the joints, Cocc. I. 3, 2h. Sharp 
pain, w^eakness, grating sensation, Dioscorea 3, 2h. 

See also Housemaid's Knee, Joints, Rheumatism, 
&c. 

Labia, Infi^ammation of. — CEdematous. — (i) Apis 3X, 
2h ; (2) Cocc. c. 3, 2h. Irritation, see Irritation. 

Labour. — Preparatory. — In general, AcL r, 3, 8h. for 



48 LAB 

four weeks before term. If a difficult labour is antici- 
pated, Am, 3, 6h., four weeks before the time ex- 
pected. Constipation of later months of pregnancy, 
Collinsonia 3, 8h. Spurious pains, Cauloph. 3, 3h. ; 
if there is great nervousness. Act, r, 3, 3h.; if due to 
indigestion, Puis. 3, 3h. 

During I^abour. — Great relief may be obtained during 
the dilatation of the external part by applying from 
time to time a new sponge wrung out of hot Calen- 
dula lotion (3ii — Oi). The same measure will assist 
healing and give great comfort after labour. 

Rigid Os. — If due to the condition of the cervix alone, 
apply a pat of fresh lard or butter and give Caul. 3 
every fifteen minutes Barnes' bags may be used for 
dilating if necessary. If along with rigidity the 
patient is restless and feverish, Aco. 3, every thirty 
minutes. If there are feeble pains as well as rigidity, 
Caul. 3, 15m. If the patient is much exhausted, a 
morphia suppository in the rectum will arrest the 
pains and give the patient time to recover strength. 

FkebIvE Pains. — If due to general debility of the 
patient, Chin. 3, 15m.; hot water douche. If due to 
exhaustion of uterus. Chloral gr. v., followed in 
twenty minutes by a further dose of gr. x. 

Retained Placenta. — The preparatory administra- 
tion of Ariiica diminishes the tendency to this. 

After-pains. — Caul. 3, ih. 

AFTER-TREATMENT. — If nothing abnormal. Am, 3, 
2 — 4h. for 48h., assists the recovery of the parts. 

HEMORRHAGE — Introduce the hand, clear out any 
clots, apply pressure from without; the uterus will 
contract on the hand. If this fails, inject hot water 
(120°). 



Iv A C — L A R 149 

CONVUI.SIONS. — Hydrocyaji. acid. 3, 15m. 

Constipation. — Veratr. alb.T^,6h. 

PuERPERAi, Fevkr. — Dry skin, heat, pain, anxiety 
restlessness. Aeon. 3, ih. Excessive tenderness, 
distension, bloody and slimy evacuations, Merc. cor. 
3, ih. Pysemic conditions, /^rc^^;?. 12 gtt. i. 2 — 4h. 
Hot flannels may be applied to the abdomen, if there 
are peritonitic symptoms. Hot injections of a dilute 
Condy's fluid solution, if there are offensive dis- 
charges. 

PuERPKRAi. Mania. See Mania. 

PuERPKRAi. Mki.anchoi.ia. — Act. r. 3, 3h. See 
Melancholia. 

Lochia — Offensive; suppressed; or insufficient, Sul- 
phur ^^ gtt. i. 2h. Locally, injections of solution of 
Calendula in hot water (one teaspoonful to the pint). 

Lachrymal Sac. See under Eyes. 

Lactation, Disorders of — Milk fever. Aeon. 3, 2h. 
Undue engorgement of breasts, Bry 3, 2h. Milk 
late in appearing, or afterwards diminishing in 
quantity, Asaf. 3, 2h. When the milk is poor in 
quality, in pale lymphatic subjects, Calc. c 6, 6h. In 
thin rickety subjects, Silic. 6, 6h.; in tuberculous 
subjects, Phos. 3, 4h. In weaning, to prevent en- 
gorgement, Bry. 3, 4h. To diminish the flow of 
milk. Puis. 3, 4h. Effects of over-lactation, Chi. 3, 
2h. See Breast, Infi^ammation of. 

Laryngismus Stridulus. See Croup, Spasmodic. 

Larnygitis. — acute. — Irritating hacking cough, with 
restlessness, anxiety, and fever, Aco7i. 3X. every half- 
hour, and at longer intervals as improvement takes 



I50 Iv A U — Iv E G 

place. If within six hours there is no improvement, 
the following medicines are to be given: — Barking 
cough, hoarseness, aphonia, Spong. 3, ^^h. Thick, 
glutinous, stringy expectoration, hard to get away, 
Kali bich.^ 3X — 3, ^h. When the cough has become 
loose, but hoarseness remains, Hep. s. 6, 2h. 

GEdema G1.0TTIDIS — Apis 3x, j^h. 

Chronic. — Aphonia, weakness of vocal muscles, cough 
hard, causing urging of urine, Cancst. 3, 3h. Stringy 
expectoration, difficult to get away. Kali bichr. 3X, 
3h. Ivoose cough, mucous expectoration, white 
tongue, feeling of sickness, Ant. t. 6, 3h. Dry, irri- 
table larynx, Phos. 3, 3h. Hoarse, dry cough, re- 
lieved by lying down, Mang. 6, 3h. Dr}-, choking 
feeling in larynx, raising of yellow matier, Hep. s. 6, 
8h. Raising of small lumps of blood and mucus, 
tendency to hoarseness; commencing tubercular 
laryngitis, Sodce selen. 3, 3h. I^ong-standing catarrhs 
of elderly people, low vitality, insufficiently nour- 
ished, venous capillary dilatation, Carb. v. 6, 3h. 
Chronic irritability of larynx, without much organic 
alteration. Lack. 6, 3h. Follicular laryngitis, lod, 
3x, 4h. Follicular laryngitis in eruptive subjects, 
Siclph. 6, 4h. Tubercular inflammation, chronic 
cases, Ars. iod. 3X, gr. ii. 8h. after food; Bacil. 
30 — 200, gl. iv., 7-10 days. Tertiary syphilis, Kali 
iod. gr. V. — X., three times a day. 

Laughter, Uncontroi.i.abi.k. — Croc. s. 3X, ih. 

Lead Colic— (i) Op. ix, }{h.; (2) Albumen 3, ih. 

Legs, Cramp in. See Cramp. 

Pain in. — Pain in legs making lame, Diosc. 3, 4h. 
Cramp in fore part of leg near tibia, when walking; 
gnawing pain in shin bones; painful contraction in 



LEP — I.EU 151 

calves when walking, Carb. a. 6, 4h. Pain from 
ankle half way up the leg, causing lameness, Guaiac, 
3. 4h. Pain in tibia, Badiag. 6, 4h.; with great sen- 
sitiveness to touch. Lack. 6, 4h. 

Parai^ysis of. See Paralysis: Parapi,e:gia. 
SwKixiNG OF. See Dropsy. 
UI.CERS OF. See TJlcers. 
Varicose Veins. See Veins, Varicose- 
White Leg. See Phlegmasia Alba Dolens. 
Lepra. See Psoriasis. 

Leucocytliaeillia. — Pain or discomfort in the region of 
the spleen, Ceanothus i, 2h. Earthy complexion, 
coldness, cachexia, Nat. m. 6, 4h. Cold, clammy 
feet, dropsical swellings, worse after washing with 
cold water, Calc. c. 6, 8h. Where there is sexual ex- 
citement, Ac, picric. 3X, gr. i, 4h. Where these 
fail, Arsen. iod. 3X, gr. ii., immediately after meals. 
\Ceanothus may be given intercurrently with any one 
of the other three; should it not prove sufficient 
of itself, it will almost always relieve the pain.- Hy- 
gienic measures should be strictly enjoined in all 
cases - open-air exercise, nourishing diet; in chilly 
subjects, sponging with spirit of wine every morn- 
ing.] 

Leucoma. See Eyes: Opacity of Cornea. 

Leucorrhoea. (Whites).— Simple, mucous, Puis. 3, 4h.; 
locally — simply for cleanliness and comfort — injec- 
tions of cold or tepid water every morning, and 
night and morning when the discharge is profuse; 
Hydrastis ^ may be added to the water in the pro- 
portion of a teaspconful to the pint, if Hydras t. is 



152 L I C — L I P 

the indicated remedy and is being given internally. 
Greenish and thick, or profuse, watery and offensive, 
Sep 6, 4h. Thick, corrosive, Sabin, 3, 4h. Yellow, 
offensive, acrid, causing itching, biting, and burning 
of pudenda, Kreas. 3, 4h. Leucorrhea, preceded by 
hysterical uterine or abdominal pains extending into 
the thighs, Mag. mur. 3, 4h. Leucorrhcea with con- 
stipation, earthy complexion, Ncit. mur. 6, 4h. In- 
veterate cases, profuse; raised itching spots in va- 
gina. Alumina 6, 4h. Yellow, tenacious, sinking 
sensation, coated tongue, Hydrast. 3, 4h. After sup- 
pressed eruptions or discharges, sinking at the pit of 
the stomach in the forenoon, Sul. 6, 4h. 

In Chii^drkn. — Calc. c 6, 4h. ; frequent washing. If 
due to worms, Cina 3, 4h See Worms. 

Lichen.— Simple, Sulph. 6, 4h. Prickly heat; lichen 
urticatus, Apis 3X, 2h. Use Barilla soap. [This soap 
is manufactured by the successors of M' Clinton & 
Thompson, of Belfast. It is a pure, neutral, white 
soap, and is un scented. It is excellent for all ordi- 
nary purposes ] Lichen ruber or planus, Ars. 3, 6h. 
Li'chen scrofulorum, Ars. iod. 3X, gr. ii. immediately 
after meals; inunction of cod-liver oil; and cod-liver 
oil internally. 

Lienteria. — (i) Chi. 3, 2h. ; (2) Ferr. met. 6, 2h.; (3) 

Oleand. 3, 2h. 

Lips. — Soreness, chaps. Vaseline to be applied at bed- 
time. Crack in the centre, Nat. m. 6, 4h. Herpes 
(vesicles), Nat. m.. 6, 4h. Soreness of the commis- 
sures, Condurango ix, 4h. Swelling of the upper 
lip. Hep. s. 6, 4h. Swelling and soreness of the 
upper lip, Rhus v. 3, 4h. Scurfiness or rawness 
round the red of the lips, Ars. 3, 4h. Cancer (i) 



LIV 153 

Lyc. 6, 4h. ; (2) Ars. 3, 4h.; locally, Hydrastis. See 
Cancer. 

Liver. — acute YeivLow atrophy. — Phos. 3, ih. 

Cancer. — [This must be treated according to the 

symptoms.] For the cachexia, Hydrastis i, 4h. 

4h. Sharp pains in region of liver, Bry. 3, J^h. — 2h. 
Cirrhosis. — n) Phos, 3. 4h.; (2) Ars. tod. 3X, gr. ii. 

after food (3) Oiifia 3, 4h. ; (4) Aur. mur. 3X, gtt. ii. 

For the dropsy, tapping may be resorted to. 

Congestion. — From indolent habits, with over-indul- 
gence in eating and drinking, Nux v. 3, 2h. daily. 
From gormandizing and coarse feeding, great nausea 
and heaviness, with splitting headache, B7y. 3, ih. ; 
strict diet and regimen. From heart disease; the 
original disease must be treated. See Derange- 
ment. 

Derangement. — In bilious subjects, sudden pallor 
presaging a " bilious attack " ^vomiting of bile, con- 
stipation, light stools), Podoph. 6, 2h. See also Bil- 
ious Attack, Biliousness, and Dyspepsia. Bilious 
vomiting and diarrhoea, Iris v. 3, ^h. See also 
Diarrhoea. Dull or sharp pain in region of liver, 
tenderness, pain in right shoulder, stools either soft 
and bright yellow, or whitish and costive, jaundice, 
Chel. IX, 2h Dull, aching distress in liver region, 
frontal headache, soreness of eyes, pain in left 
shoulder, jaundice, black, foetid stools, Lept. 3, 2h. 
Sharp pain in liver region, pain between the shoul- 
ders, constrictive or out-pressing frontal headache- 
white tongue, pale stools, bilious feverish attack, 
jaundice, Bry. 3, 2h. Intense headache, soreness of 
scalp, soreness of eyes, redness of face, nausea, pros- 
tration, soreness of liver region, constipation, high- 
coloured urine; bone pains, Eup. perfol 3, 2h. Cos- 
II 



154 L I V 

tive, offensive motions, loss of appetite, depression, 
dull pain in liver region, simple jaundice, Merc. sol. 6, 
4I1. Bilious vomiting, or bitter taste in the morning on 
rising, headache in one temple or over one eye, con- 
stipation, flatulence passing upwards, Kali carb. 6, 
4h. Abdominal distress, piles, constipation, after 
Merairy^ Hep. s. 6, 4h. Ivarge, hard liver, jaundice, 
white stools, Chi. 3, 4h. Hardness and ' tenderness 
in liver region, stools in small lumps like sheeps' 
dung, piles, Mag-, mur. 6, 4h» Derangement from 
over-indulgence in alcoholic drinks, with large blind 
piles, Nux. V. 3, 2h. Acid, bitter vomiting, sinking 
at the pit of the stomach in the forenoon, in patients 
with eruptive tendency, Sul. 3, 8h. White tongue, 
vomiting of bile, diarrhoea, especially in the morning, 
protrusion of piles and prolapse of the bowel, Podoph. 
6, 2h. Chronic derangement, yellow-grey or dingy 
sallow complexion, flatulence, constipation, loaded 
urine, Lye. 6, 4h. ** Torpid liver, ' ' with loaded urine, 
venous engorgement, depression, chilliness, sensitive- 
ness to cold air, especially in females, Sep. 6, 4h. 
See also below, Pain in. 

Fatty Liver. — Regimen and suitable diet; Phos. 3, 4h. 
According to symptoms, see above, under Derange- 
ment. 

Hydatid Cysts oE. — The treatment is surgical. 

InfIvAMMation oe. — From cold, sharp pain, worse on 
touch or movement, and relieved by lying on painful 
side, Bry. 3, ih ; poultices. Tongue dirty yellowish 
white, foetid breath, skin jaundiced, liver region sore 
to touch, worse lying on painful side, offensive per- 
spiration, Merc. s. 6, 2h. Abscess, Hep. s. 6, 2h.; 
surgical treatment if necessary. See also medicines 
under Pain in, according to symptoms. 



L I V — L O C 155 

Pain in (HepaTai^Gia). — With great depression of 
spirits, intermittent stitches, in functional or organic 
disorder, A)n. viiir. 3X, 2h. Dull, heavy, grinding 
pain in the liver, worse when lying on right side; dull 
pain in region of gall-bladder; aching in left blade- 
bone, Diosc. 3, 2h. Pressure or sticking in the liver, 
worse by pressure; sticking in gall-bladder; draw- 
ing in shoulder-blades; pains in loins; thick urine, 
Berb. 3, 2h. Stitches and pressure in liver and on top 
of right shoulder; pain as if bruised, and tenderness 
of region of liver, Raniuic. b. 3, 2h. Continued pres- 
sure in region of liver, as if with a dull instrument, 
Ranunc. seel. 3, 2h. Stitching, shooting pains in 
liver, pain in right scapula, yellowish skin, light 
yellow stools, Chel. ix, 2h. 

Syphii^is. — When enlargement of the liver occurs in 
tertiary syphilis, Kali i. gr. v.-x. 8h.; if this is not 
sufficient, it may be followed by Mere. bin. 3X, gr. ii. 
8h. Where there is no enlargement, but derange- 
ment of the liver in old syphilitics, with depression, 
Aur. "tnur. 3X, gtt. ii. 4h. 

Waxy DegexkraTion. — The disease on which it de- 
pends must be treated according to the symptoms. 
If there are no special indications, Kali iod. gr. iii. 4h. 

See also Calculus, Bii^iary; Dropsy, Jaundice. 

Liver-spots.— (i) Sep. 6, 4h.; (2) Lye. 6, 4h. 
Lochia. See imder Labour. 
Lock-jaw. See Tetanus. 

Locomotor Ataxy. — in the early stage, especially when 
occurring in children, Secale i, 3h. When of evi- 
dently syphilitic origin and diagnosed early, Kali iod. 
gr. iii. — 30, thrice daily. When the first symptoms 



156 L O W — Iv U M 

are disorder of vision, white atrophy of the retina 
with absence of knee-jerk, Phos. 3, 2h. Great irrita- 
bility and excitability, increased sensitiveness to all 
impressions, Nux v. 3, 2h. When periodical priapism, 
or clitoridean ' ' crises ' ' announce the disease, Ac. pier. 
3x, gr ii. — 30, 6h When the disease is fully estab- 
lished, lightning p.iins, urinary troubles, Ac. Jiuor. 3, 
2h, When there are gastric "crises" and other 
digestive disorders; when the pains are of a plucking 
character and confined to small spots, Ai'g. n. 3X, 2h. 
Tightness at chest, sensation as if a cord tied round 
the leg under the knee or the upper arm; stitches, 
numbness, great coldness of legs and feet, Alumen 
6, 4h. Pain shooting from right to left in body; 
flatulence, colic, constipation, Lye. 6, 8h. When the 
pains are burning, restlessness, anxiety, irritability, 
Ars. 3, 4h. Much depression, Aur. 30, 8h. Worried, 
anxious, depressed, hysterical, Ign. 3, 2h. 

Low Fever. See Enteric Fever. 

Lumbago. — From dry cold, from a draught; pain sharp, 
or as if sprained; the pain excited by touch; the part 
sensitive. Aeon. 3, ih. If with the muscular pains 
the e are restlessness and sleeplessness, Aet. r. 3, 2h. 
Stiffness in the back, painful on motion; a bruised 
or burning pain, easier during motion; from damp 
cold, Rhus L 3, 2h. Pain excited by every motion; 
muscles sensitive to touch; bruised feeling in the 
back when lying on it; from dry cold, Bry. 3, 2h. 
Pain in small of back as after stooping a long while, 
Diile. 3, 2h Stiffness in back; pain worse whilst 
sitting or lying, in the morning on awaking; with 
urinary or rectal troubles, Berb. ix, 2h. From dry 
cold ; pains worse on the approach of storms, Rhod. 
3, 2h. From an injury., Ar7i. 3, 2h. Dull backache, 
walking almost impossible, scarcely able to stoop, or 



LUM — LUN 157 

rise after sitting; especially with constipation and 
piles, ^sc. h. 3, 2h. Dull pressure, sticking and 
tearing, writhing in loins and urinary passages; 
worse by motion, Colch. 3, 2h, Pains in paroxysms; 
shooting at times, Kali bichr. 3X, 4h. Dull heavy 
dragging pains, weakness, sexual excitement, Ac. 
pier. 3x, gr. ii. — 30, 4h. Violent bruised pain in small 
of back and coccyx; drawing; stitches; worse when 
on feather bed; worse by external cold, relieved by 
external warmth; come on during rest, go off during 
motion; in venous subjects, Sulph. 6, 4h. Back- 
ache, as from fatigue, especially after eating and 
while sitting; violent sacro-lumbar pain, the slightest 
effort to move causing retching and cold, clammy 
sweat. Ant. t. 6, 6h. Pain as if beaten, worse during 
motion than rest, Nux v. 3, 2h. Sticking in small of 
back on breathing; bruised pain; pains wo'se on 
going to bed, banishing sleep; better on motion, 
Merc. sol. 6, 4h. [Locally, a flannel belt, or, still 
better, a belt made of pine wool, should be worn. In 
acute cases, hot flannels on which a little turpentine 
has been sprinkled sh'^uld be applied; or the part 
ironed every few hours with a hot flat-iron through 
a piece of flannel laid over the part affected.] 

Lumbrici. See Worms. 

Lungs. — Conge:stion Acute : Difficult breathing, 
anxiety, restlessness, hot dry skin, short hacking dry 
cough, Aco7i. 3, j^h. Stupor, face flushed, dark, rusty 
expectoration, Phos. 3, j^h. Passive: From de- 
bility; rusty sputa; purpura, Phos. 3, 2h Blueness, 
coldness, depression, Carh. v. 6, 2h. Obstructive: 
From heart disease, Ars. i. 3X, gr. ii. thrice daily im- 
mediately after food Fluttering, irregular heart, 
swelling of feet, Dig. 3, ih. (if it has not been given 
before). Where there is constipation, flatulence, and 
diminished urine. Lye. 6, 2h. See also PneuiHOllia. 



158 INF — LUP 

HEMORRHAGE. — Rusty Sputa, or mucous expectora- 
tion, streaked with blood, Phos. 3, as above, under 
Congestion. In active congestion of the chest, 
bright red blood in some quantity, Cad. 3, ih. See 
Consumption, Bi^kkding. 

Inflammation. See Pneumonia. 

Abscess. — Hot, dry skin, restlessness, anxiety. Aeon. 
3, ih. Flushed face, headache, delirium, pains in 
chest, vrorse when lying on affected side, Bell. 3, ih. 
Chills and heats, pus evidently forming, Hep. 6, 2h. 
Low fever, anxiety, depression, Ars. 3, 2h. Fetid 
expectoration, with explosive cough and fetid breath. 
Caps. 3, 2h. 

Gangrene. Crotal. 3, 2h. Blueness and coldness of 
the patient, Carb. v. 6, ih. Fetid expectoration and 
breath, with explosive cough, Caps. 3, 2h. Red 
tongue, thirst, low fever, Ars. 3, 2h. 

CEdema. — In the course of bronchitis, Sang. C. 3x, 
15m. Sudden attack in the course of heart affection, 
Am. c. 3 — 30, lom. Following acute congestion, 
Phos. 3, ih. If Phos. fails to prevent or check 
oedema, or when it occurs in the course of general 
dropsy. Ant. tart. 6, 2h. See also Dropsy. 

Lupus. — Bacil. 30 — 200, gl. iv. once a week. Or Tuherc. 
k. 30 — 200 in the same way. [Koch's preparation 
has cured a number of cases in homoeopathic prepa- 
rations.] In persons subject to skin affections, sink- 
ing sensation in the forenoon, acidity, cold feet, 
miserable dejected feeling, Sul. 6, 8h. In pale, stout 
subjects, who have heat and perspiration of the head, 
cold clammy hands and feet, acidity, Calc. c 6, 8h. 
Great sensitiveness of the affected part, chilly, desire 
to be covered, Hep. 6, 8h. Recent cases, yellow 
coated tongue, constipation, faint sinking sensation 



Iv Y M — M A N 159 

at the stomach, Hydrast. 3, 4h.; externally, applica- 
tion of glycerole of Hydrastis ^Hydrast. $, 3^-) 
Glycer Jss ). Great debility, restlessness, anxious 
temperament, relief from heat, worse from " cold, 
Ars. 3, 4h. When there is great despondency, 
syphilitic taint, Aur. niur, 3X, 4h. Afterwards Kali 
bichroni. 3X, 4h.; externally, application of the same 
medicine in the same attenuation; or Hydrocotyle 6, 
4h ; application of glycerole of .^^s'rc^^C'/y/^ [Hydroc. 
<i>, 5i., Glycer. gss ). 

Lymphatic Glands. See Glands ; also Breast, Bubo, 
Tonsils, Hodgkin's Disease. 

Malignant Pustule {called also Woolsorter's Disease, 

or Charbon). (When it is so situated that it is 
within the reach of surgical measures, the advisa- 
biUty of excision must be considered. In all cases 
internal medication will be of assistance) . Anthracin. 
30, I — 2h. Excessive sensitiveness, purple coloration 
of the parts, fear to be touched or approached, irri- 
tability of temper. Lack. 6, gtt ii. ih. ; locally, a 
compress of the same (5i- — Sii)' burning pain, 
great thirst, restlessness, anguish, Ars. 3, ih. If 
there is much fever, dry, hot skin, thirst, restless- 
ness, anxiety, and fear of death, Aeon. 3, |h. If 
there is delirium and flushed face, Bell. 3, ^h See 
also Carbuncle, when the symptoms correspond. 

Mammary Abscess. See Breast. 

Mania (Insanity with Delirium.)— Simple mania in a 

subdued form, without hypersemia; vivacious talka- 
tiveness, vnth hallucinations of the senses, or spite- 
ful, quarrelsome moodiness; muscular twitchings and 
restlessness of the eyeballs; nymphomania (with 
great tendency to uncover) ; hypochondriacal mono- 
mania as syphilophobia, Hyo. 3, ih. Acute mania 



i6o MAR— ME A 

without symptoms of hypersemia, Strain. 3, ih. 
Acute mania with furious delirium, red face, large 
staring eyes, dilated pupils, Bell. 3, ^h. Mania w4th 
exalted ideas, time and space seem infinite, Ca7i. Ind, 
3, 4h. Incontrollable laughter; outbursts of fury, 
rapidly alternating with fits of repentance, Croc, s. 3, 
4h. With anguish, religious melancholy, depression, 
cold sweat on forehead, Verat. a. 3, 2h. 

Marasmus. See Atrophy. 

Masturbation. See Self-abuse. 

Measles. — Prophyi^actic. When measles breaks out in 
a house, let all those not infected take Aeon, 3 and 
Puis 3, each twice daily. 

The fever. — At the commencement, catarrhal symp- 
toms, chilly, with restlessness, dry skin, thirst at 
night, Aeon. 3, ih. Sore throat, swollen face, head- 
ache, dry cough, Bell. 3, ih. When there is much 
digestive catarrh and diarrhoea, patients cannot bear 
to be w^armly covered. Puis. 3, ih. Great restlessness, 
soreness all over, and rheumatic pains, Rhus t. 3, 
ih. Should the eruption recede or fail to appear, and 
oppression of the brain follow, Camph. ix, gtt ii. 
^h. until reaction sets in; at the same time a hot-air 
bath should be given, or the patient placed in a hot 
pack. Should the retrocession of the eruption be 
followed by convulsive symptoms, Cupr. acet. 3, X^- 5 
the hot-air bath, or pack, in the same way. If the 
coryza is very distressing, the eyes should be bathed 
every few hours with a lotion oi Euphrasia {Euph. 4>, 
a teaspoonful to half a teacupful of water). When 
the cough is a very distressing feature, the larjmx 
being affected, cough dr}-, constant, irritating, Aco. 
3, ih. Hoarseness, phlegm difficult to raise, coming 
in long tough strings, Kali bichr. 3X, 2h. After the 



MEG — MEM i6i 

fever, if catarrh remains, Merc. s. 6, 3h ; Eicphras, 
locally as above if there is coryza. Night-sweats and 
general weakness, Ars. i. 3x, gr. ii. thrice daily after 
meals. Hyperpyrexia, see Hyperpyrexia. 

Seouei.^. — In general, in scrofulous subjects, glandu- 
lar enlargements, (i) Bacil. 30 — 100, gl iv. once a 
week. (2) Sulph. 30, 4h. Constipation after, Opium 
3, 2h. Conjunctival irritation, Ars. 3, 4h, Inflam- 
mation and ulceration of the mouth, Merc. c. 6, 2h. ; 
wash of borax (a piece the size of a filbert dissolved 
in half a teacupful of water). See also Bronchitis, 
Cough, Diphtheria, Ears, Eyes. 

Megrim or Migraine. See Headache. 

Melancholia. — Recent, traceable to worry, grief, fright, 
or disappointment; especially at the menopause, Ign. 
3, 3h. Melancholy with nervousness, restlessness, 
and sleeplessness. Act. r. 3, 3h. Anguish, vital de- 
pression, great coldness of the skin, cold sweat on 
forehead, Verat. alb. 3, 3h. Melancholy, nervous- 
ness, drowsiness, with constipation. Op. 3, 3h. Reli- 
gious or other melancholy with very obstinate con- 
stipation, Plumb, acet. 6, 3h. Suicidal melancholy 
in men, Aur. mur. 3X, 4h. Suicidal melancholy 
in women ; puerperal melancholia ; haughtiness; 
objects and people seem small, Plat. 6, 3h. Restless, 
anguished depression, Ars. 3, 4h. Fretful irritability, 
Merc. sol. 6, 4h. Discouragement, loss of spirits, 
emaciation, hungry craving, lod. 3X, 4h. See also 
Hypochondriasis. 

Memory, Loss of, or Weak. — Anacard. 3X, 4h. For 
words and names, Sul. 6, 4h. With inattention, 
heavy listless mood, absent-mindedness, Baryt. c. 6, 
4h. With soporous condition of mind; mental opera- 
tions difficult, Zinc. in. 6, 4h. Mind distracted; 



i62 MEN 

easily worried, Cocc. I. 3, 4h. Thinking difficult, 
forgetting everything, Dig. 3, 4h. Forgetfulness 
whilst talking; sudden disappearance of thoughts, 
Rhod. 3, 4h. Loss of memor}^ after catalepsy, Camph. 
3, 4I1. 

Meniere's Disease (Auditory Nerve Vertigo).— (Gid- 
diness and noises in the ears, wnth deafness ) — (i) 
Sod. salicyl. 3, 4h; (2) Chin. 3, 4h.; (3) Chin. sul. 
3x, gr. ii. 4h. 

Meningitis. — CkrKBRai,. — When caused by a blow, at 
the beginning, A^m. i, ih. When fever comes on, 
with restlessness, anxiety, fearfulness, dry skin, 
thirst, A CO. 3, ih. When there is delirium, patient 
tries to escape, flushed face, dilated pupils. Bell. 3, 
ih. If there is little delirium, but much pain, white 
tongue, nausea ; w^hen effusion appears to have 
taken place, depression and stupor coming on, Bry. 
3, ih. Great depression, much pain in the back of 
the head and neck, Hell. n. 3, ^h. Shrill cries in 
sleep, nervous fidgetiness, Apis 3X, ih. After Apis 
and other medicines, hot head, cold feet in those 
subject to eruption, Sul. 6, ih. Tubercular, Bacil. 
30 — 200, a single dose of four globules, dry on the 
tongue and dissolved in a little water When the 
fever has subsided, if the original cause has been 
concussion, and after Apis or Bry. has been given, 
Am. I, 2h. After the fever, when Bell, or Helleb. 
has been given. Zinc. met. 6, 2h. 

SPiNAiy. — Acute, wath fever, restlessness, fear, dry skin, 
Aco. 3, ih. Pains in various parts, aggravated on 
the least attempt at movement, Bry. 3, ih. Stiffness 
and paralysis of the lower limbs, Ac. oxal. 3X, ih. 

Cerebro-Spinai. (" Typhoid Meningitis, ' ' 
" Spotted Fever " ) — Cicuta virosa ;^, ih. When 



MEN 163 

the fever is of a low typhoid kind and symptoms of 
blood-poisoning predominate, Crotal. 3, ih. Should 
other remedies fail to relieve the spasm, Act. r, 3, 
Xh. during the spasms. After-effects: paralysis. 
Gels em. i, 2h. ; deafness — (i) Silic. 6, 4h.; (2) Sulph. 
6, 4h. 

TuBERcuivAR. See Hydrocephalus, 

Menopause. See Change of Life. 

Menorrhagia. See Menstruation, Excessive. 

Menstruation. 

[In all disorders of the menstrual functions hygienic 
measures are most important. Except in those in 
whom a good reaction cannot be obtained, a cold 
sponge-down should be enjoined, to be followed by 
brisk rubbing with a rough towel. At bedtime a 
sitz-bath at 65° for from ^n^ to ten minutes, the 
limbs and rest of the body being kept very warm, 
the feet in hot water, if necessary. Regular meals 
and regular open-air exercise should be insisted on. . 
The bath should be omitted during the period.] 

Symptoms before Menses. — Bleeding ulcer; swelling 
of gums and cheeks, Phos. 3, 4h.; feels faint, has 
sourish taste in mouth and spits a little blood, Nat. in. 
6, 4h. Breasts painful, (i) Calc. c. 6, 4h ; (2) Con. 
3, 4h.; (3^ Sa7tg. i, 4h. Cough, Sul. 3, 4h. Itching 
in pudenda, Graph. 6, 4h Nausea or diarrhoea 
before, Verat. a. 3, 4h. Restless and irritable some 
days before, Kreas. 3, 4h. Very irritable the day 
before, Magnes. mur 6, 4h. Attack of depression 
before, Sep. 6, 4h. Cross and melancholic, Lye. 6, 
4h. Sees the dark side of everything, Caust. 6, 4h. 
At the beginning ill-humoured, Cham. 6, 4h. 



i64 MEN 

Before and During. — Dr^^ cough and perspiration, 
Graph. 6, 4h. Pain at heart, Lith. c. 6, 4h. 

During. — Hoarseness and febrile coryza; trembling. 
Graph. 6, 4h. Pains in groins during, Borax 6, 4h. 

Amenorrhcea (Absence oe Menstruae Feow. — 
When the meuses do not appear at puberty, there 
beiug no local or constitutional disease to account 
for the absence, especially in blonde, mild-tempered, 
impressionable subjects. Puis. 3, 8h. When due 
to anaemia or tubercular diathesis, see Anaemia, 
Tuberculosis. When suppressed from a chill, Aeon. 
3, 2h. for a few days, to be followed, if necessary, by 
Puis. 3, 8h. , which may be continued for a month or 
longer. If there is no appearance of the flow at the 
time that the next period is due, Sulph. 3 — 30, 8h., 
especially if there is a sinking sensation at 11 a. m., 
flushes of heat, hot head, cold extremities. If there 
is headache on waking, chilliness, depression, con- 
stipation, Nat. viur. 6, 4h. 

Cessation of. — Sufferings from, see Change of Life. 

[N. B. — The best time to give medicines for menstrual 
irregularities is when the period is just over. They 
may be continued during the period if the symptoms 
are urgent.] 

Delayed and Scanty. — Delayed, defective, irregular; 
patients pale, languid, chilly, complain of headache, 
Puis. 3, 4h. Menses delaj^ed, always after the proper 
time, constipation; tendency to skin eruptions, 
flushings, faint sinking sensation in the forenoon, 
Sulph. 6, 6h. Delayed; itching in pudenda before, 
Graph. 6, 4h. Scanty, with constipation; earthy 
complexion, Nat ni. 6, 6h Scanty, delaj-ing, dark, 
pitch}', Mag. c. 6, 6h. Scanty, late, irregular, pain- 
ful, Senec. ^, 6h. 



MEN 165 

Excessive.— Early, Borax 6, 4h. Too early and exces- 
sive, especially in pale subjects, inclined lo stoutness, 
troubled with cold, damp, feet, Calc. c. 6, 4h. Too 
early, too profuse, too long lasting, with bearing 
down, prolapse, rectal urging, Aloe 3X, 4h. Simple 
increase of normal flow, Ferrum met, 6, 4h. Menor- 
rhagia, dark, especially if accompanied with ovarian 
irritation, Hamam. 3, 4h. Menorrhagia, black lumps, 
Chi. I, 4h. Black, clotted, pitchy, clots, in rags, or 
like leeches, Croc. s. 3, 4h. When due to disturbing 
emotions, accompanied with great irritability, the 
flow dark and clotted, Cham. 6, 4h. When the flow 
is sanious, dark, and fluid, especially in thin cachectic 
subjects, Secale i, 4h. Menorrhagia, the flow being 
worse during the night, Mag. c. 6, 4h. The blood 
being bright red, the flow profuse and paroxysmal; 
better when walking or standing, Sabi7i. 3, 4h. 
Bright red flow, with head symptoms, Bell. 3, 4h. 
Simple menorrhagia, profuse, bright red discharge, 
with or without nausea, Ipec. 3, 4h. Menorrhagia 
after abortion or dysmenorrhoea; at the climacteric; 
great downward pressure in the pelvis; pain in the 
back and thighs; offensive urine, of odour like 
horses'; restlessness after midnight, Ac. nit. i, 4h. 
Chronic menorrhagia; thin corrosive, burning leu- 
corrhcea, Ars 3, 4h. Discharge of blood between 
the periods from slight causes, Ambra 3, 4h. Coming 
on too soon and returning soon after; violent 
cramps, bearing down pain; irritable green leucor- 
rhoea; great irritation, Ac. nit. 6, 4h, Flow exces- 
sive, preceded and followed by discharge of non- 
menstrual blood, Ustilago 3, 4h. 

Painful, (Dysmenorrhoea ) — [The frequenc}^ of repe- 
tition uf dose refers to the period when there is pain; 
the same medicine may be given twice or thrice daily 
during the intervals.] — Spasmodic, severe abdominal 



i66 M E N — M E T 

pains, Caul. 3, ih. When the patient is nerv^ous, 
restless, and melancholy, Act. r. 3, ih. With horrible 
pains, causing her to cry aloud; great prostration, 
Cact. 3, 2h. With great impressionability and fret- 
fulness, Cham. 6, ih. Pain in paroxysms, relieved by 
hot applications, Magnes. Phos 6x, gr. ii. in a table- 
spoonful of hot water every ten minutes. Pain in 
groins. Borax 6, 4h. Violent pains, dragging 
towards genitals, Mag. c. 6, 4h. When accompanied 
by sickness and giddiness, like sea-sickness, Cocc. I. 
3, ih. Simple dysmenorrhoea, with headache. Gels, 
3, ih. Simple spasmodic. Viburnum op. 3, ih. 
When the flow is scanty, black, and clotted. Puis. 3, 
ih. When the flow is insufficient, Sep. 6, ih When 
the flow is profuse and before the time, dreadful 
distress and pain, especially in spare, nervous, and 
delicate women, Xanthox. 3, ih. From ovarian 
irritation, Ham. i, gtt ii. 3h. With ovarian irrita- 
tion, offensive menstrual and leucorrhoeal discharge. 
Bell. 3, ih. Membranous dysmenorrhoea. Borax 
gr. V. thrice daily. 

SuppRKSSED. See Amknorrhcea. 

Vicarious. — In general, Ham. i, 2h. When it takes 
the form of epistaxis, Bry. i, 2h. 

Mentagra. See Beard. 

Mental Weakness. — (i) Ac. phos. ix, 4h.; (2) Anacard. 
I, 4h.; (3) after brain disorder, Zinc. 6, 4h. See also 
Hysteria, Hypochondriasis, Mania, Melancholia, 
Memory, Loss of. 

Mesenteric Disorder. See Tabes Mesenterica. 

Metritis. See Uterus. 

Metrorrhagia. See Uterus, hemorrhage from. 



MIG — MIS 167 

Migraine. See Headache. 

Miliaria. Aeon. 3, ih. When oppression at the heart 
is very distressing, Cad. 3, ih. Sweating exces- 
sively profuse, Jaborandi 3, ih. 

Milk. See Lactation. 

Milk-crust. See Eczema Capitis. 

Milk Fever. See Lactation. 

Milk Leg. See Phlegmasia Alba Dolens. 

Millar's Asthma. See Croup, Spasmodic. 

Mind. — Affkctions of. — Calls things by wrong names, 
Diosc. 30, 8h. Proud and suspicious to friends, Lack. 
6, 8h. Indifferent to friends, Sep. 6, 8h. Ill-treats 

friends, Hyo. 3, 4h. See also Melancholia, Mental 
Weakness, Hypochondriasis, Mania, Memory, 
Loss OF. 

Miner's Elbow. See Bunion. 

Miscarriage. — Thrkatened. when there is fever, rest- 
lessness, thirst, dry skin, anxiety, fear of death. 
Aeon. 3, ih. In the earlier half of pregnancy, Sabin. 
3, ih.; in the latter half, Secale 3, ih. When arising 
from an accident, Am. 3, ih. When due to emo- 
tional disturbance, Cham. 6, ih. For repeated 
occurrence of abortio7i: — When due to syphilis in 
mother or child, Merc. cor. 6, 8h , to be continued 
throughout pregnancy, with occasional intermissions. 
When either parent is scrofulous, Calc. c. 6, 8h. 
throughout pregnancy, with occasional intermis- 
sions When there is eruptive tendenc}^ SuL 6, 
8h. on alternate fortnights throughout pregnancy. 
When either parent is rickety, or when previous 
children have been so, Sil. 6, 8h. throughout preg- 



i68 M O ly — M O U 

nancy, with occasional intermissions. [When parti- 
cular symptoms on the part of the mother indicate 
other medicines than those mentioned, these must 
be given; the deeply acting medicines of the 
Chronic Diseases of Hahnemann will be found most 
frequently called for. The greatest safety for the 
child lies in the health of the mother. ] 

Mole. See NsBvus. 

Mollities Ossium.— (i) Phos. 3, 4h. ; (2) Calc. tod. 3X, 4h. 

MoUuscum Contagiosum.— (i) Calc. c 6, 4.; (2) Sil. 
6, 4h. 

Molluscum Fibrosum.— .5'2*//<^. 6, 4h. 

Morbus Coxae.— ^^^ Hip-joint Disease. 

Morning Sickness. See Pregnancy. 

Morphoea or Scleroderma.— (i) Silic 6, 8h.; (2) Phos. 
3, 4h.; (3) Ars. 3, 4h.; (4) Thyroid, gr. iv.— 30, 8h. 
[Locally, inunction with simple ointment; friction 
of the skin; vapour-bath followed by inunction; 
electricity.] 

Mouth. — Dry, red, burning, Bell. 3, ih. Simple exuda- 
tive inflammation of the mouth — (i) Caps. 3, 2h.; 
(2) Nat. mur. 6, 2h. Sore mouth, cracks in the 
commissures of the lips, foul odour, Ac. nit. 6, 2h. 
Scurfy patches at mouth corners, pimples on chin. 
Hep. 6, 8h. Ulcerative inflammation of the mouth, 
Merc. cor. 3, 2h. When due to mercury — (i) Acid 
nit. 6, 2h.; (2) Hep. 6, 2h. Mouth sore, red, in- 
flamed, glazed, salivation, Ac. nit. 6, 2h. Aphthous 
mouth, psoriasis of tongue, recurring ulcer, Ac. mur. 
6, 2h. Very sore feeling in the mouth, redness of 
tongue, elevated papillae, lips and corners of mouth 
cracked, nose sore, Arum tri. 12, 2h (If given in a 



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low attenuation, this must be freshly prepared.) 
Mouth covered with offensive mucus after sleeping, 
Rheum 3, 4h. 

Ui,CKRS. Merc. cor. 3, 3h.; locally, Muriate of Hy- 
drastin lotion {Hydrast. mur. gr. iii. , distilled water, 
three ounces). 

Canker. See Cancmin Oris. 

Mucous Patches, — Ac. nit. 6, 4h. ; locally, to be painted 
night and morning with Thuja $. See Condylo- 
mata, Syphilis. 

Mumps. — Fever, thirst, restlessness, anxiety, pain. Aeon. 
3, ih. After Acon.^ when the fever has subsided, 
Merc. cor. 3, ih. If the testicles become affected, 
Puis. 3x, 2h. Mania coming on after mumps. Bell. 
3, 2h. 

Muscae Volitantes {Specks floating about before the 
sight). — This affection is generally dependent on 
some disturbance of general health, or error of re- 
fraction in the eye. When the latter is the case, 
spectacles will be required; when the former, the 
medicine best suited to the general state. From 
general weakness after illness or exhausting dis- 
charges, Chi. 3, 4h. From liver disorder, Ac. nit. 6, 
4h. From sexual excess, Phos, 3, 4h. From alco- 
holic excess, Nux v. 3, 2h. See Eye : Sight. 

Muscles, Pain in. See Myalgia. 

Muscular Rheumatism. See Rheumatism, Muscu- 
I.AR; Myalgia, Diaphragm, Lumbago, Stijff- 
neck. 

Myalgia. — From a chill, numbness, pain excited by 
touch, Aco. 3, 2h. From exposure to dry cold, pain 
worse by every movement, Bry. 3, 2h. From getting 
12 



lyo M Y E 

cold and wet, Dulc. 3, 2h. In general, Macrotin 
3x, gr. ii. 3h. Dull pain in head, back, and limbs, 
with fever; drawing, aching, jerking, deep-seated 
pain in the limbs, weakness of the legs, Gels. 3, 2h. 
Weakness of the whole muscular system, drawing 
pain and cramps in the limbs and joints; crawling, 
thrilling, aching in the back, Verat. v. 3, 2h. Dart- 
ing, tearing, jerking pains, which come and go, dis- 
appear suddenly, Valer. 3, 2h, Prostration and 
weariness in all the limbs, tearing in all the limbs 
and joints; tearing, drawing, rheumatic or bruised 
sensation; pain in the back after eating, and while 
sitting; rheumatic pain in the lumbar region in the 
morning, Ant. t. 6, 4h. Jerking and pains in all 
the limbs; pain in right foot aud left arm; vio- 
lent paralytic pain in the arms; jerking drawing 
in the shoulders, cramps, tearing in the hips and 
legs, Colch. 3, 2h. Stiffness and weakness of and 
pressure on the shoulder, uneasiness in the limbs; 
lasts an hour in bed in the morning; tearing in all 
the limbs; weakness and trembling, paralytic heavi- 
ness, intolerable uneasiness, Caust. 6, 2h. See also 
Diaphragm, Lumbago, Rheumatism, Muscui^ar; 
StifF-neck. 

Myelitis ^Inflammation of the spinal cord), — AcuTK. — 
Violent pain along the spine, tetanic spasms, fever, 
fear, Aco. 3, ih Tetanic spasms, sensitiveness to all 
external impressions, Nux v. 3, ih. Violent con- 
vulsions, piercing cries, Cic. v. 3, ih. 

Chronic. — Great rigidity of the lower limbs, pain, 
chilliness, Ac. oxal. 3X, 2h. Restlessness, cramps, 
and contraction of paralyzed limbs, loss of sensibil- 
ity to everything except cold, which excites or aggra- 
vates the symptoms, neuralgia, pains affecting hands 



MYO- NAI 17T 

and feet especially, restlessness, Ars, 3, 2h. Chronic 
spinal paralysis, Plumb. 6, 4h. 

l&.'^^yili^i.—Physostig. 3x, 4h. 

Myxoedema.— T^^J^^n gr. ii. 5— 3^, gr. v. 8h. Great 
chilliness, scaly skin, restlessness, anxiety, Arsen. 
200, 8h. 

Naevus. — VascuIvAR, — [When surgical treatment is not 
advisable, and vaccination of the naevus not possible, 
the following medicines may be of service.] (r) 
Thuja I — 30, 6h., locally, Thuja <^, painted on night 
and morning; (2) Calc. c. 6, 6h.; (3) Phos. 3 — 6, 6h.; 
(4) Lye, 6, 6h. 

Nails. — Brittle and powdery when cut, rough and yellow, 
Sil. 6, 6h Panaritium and brittle nails, lancinating 
pains and tendency to ulceration of finger tips; 
brittle nails and brittle skin on tips of fingers, nails 
brittle, thick, spots on nails, Alumina 6, 8h. Slow 
growth, skin under nails painfully sensitive; horny 
growth under nails; horny warts on hands. Ant. crud^ 
6, 8h. Pains under nails, Sep. 6, 4h. Cracked, Ars. 
3, 6h. Thickened or corrugated. Graph. 6, 6h. 
Ulcers around, Phos. 3, 4h. Degeneration of pulp; 
nails separate from matrix and leave a granulating 
surface, Secal. 3, 4h. 

INF1.AMMAT10N OF PUI.P (Onychia). — Sil. 6, 6h.; 
locally — (i) Calend. ^ (two teaspoonfuls to the half- 
cupful of water); (2) Aeid boracic (one drachm dis- 
solved in half a teacupful of water). 

Ingrowing Toe-naii.. — (i) Magnet. Aust. 30 — 200, 
4h.; (2) Ae. nit. 6, 4h.; locally, ointment of //y^rai-- 
tis ^ (one drachm to the ounce of vaseline or simple 
ointment). [Surgical measures maybe necessary. 
When the nail has to be divided in the centre, and a 



172 N A U — N EU 

V-shaped piece excised, the operation may be greatly- 
facilitated by keeping the nail saturated with glycer- 
ine for two or three days previously.] 

Nausea. See Dyspepsia, Vomiting. 

Neck. Stiffness, crick -in-the neck. See StifF-neck. 

Necrosis. See Bone. 

Nephritis. See Kidney. 

Nervous Debility. See Debility, Spermatorrbcea, 
&c. 

Nervousness. See Hysteria, Hypochondriasis. 

Nettle-Rash (Urticaria) — Rkcknt.— ^/z^ 3x, 2h. 
Should this fail to cause improvement in a day or 
two, Chloral hydrate 3X, 8h. When due to gastric 
disorder, with loaded tongue, Ant. crud. 3, gr. ii. 4h. 
From chill and wetting, Dulc. i, 2h. 

Chronic. — Astacus fluviatilis {Cancer fluviatilis, Can- 
cer astacus)^ 6, 4h. When the irritation comes on at 
night when warm in bed, Siilph. 3, 6h. In weakly 
subjects, red tongue, thirst, much burning, Ars. 3, 
4h Inveterate cases, with constipation; earthy 
con.plexion, Nat. mur. 6, 8h. 

Neuralgia. — [Iri severe and recent attacks the medi- 
cines may be given at first every quarter of an hour 
until relief is obtained.] Facial or sciatic from cold 
draughts, congestive with numbness, Aco. 3, 2h. 
Recent in the young, hypersemia, hypersethesia, 
facial, especially on the right side. Bell. 3, 2h. From 
cold and damp, tearing pains of face going into the 
eye; joints ajBfected; in right testis, Coloc. 3, 2h. 
Facial and supra-orbital, especially of the left side, 
the pains coming at regular intervals jerking and 



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tearing; spreading to the neck, involving the eyes; 
aggravated by the least concussion or motion, di- 
minished by firm pressure; pale face, restlessness, 
perspiration, Spig. 3, 2h. Pure neuralgia, pain 
burning, agonizing, accompanied with restlessness 
and anguish; intermittent; periodic; at first re- 
lieved, but afterwards aggravated by cold applica- 
tions; worse by rest, relieved by exercise; especially 
on left side; gastralgia; malarial neuralgia; in low 
states of health, Ars. 3, 2h. Malarial neuralgia; 
supra-orbital neuralgia; with gravelly urine, Chinin. 
s. 3, 2h. Neuralgia of clock-like periodicity, Cedr. 3, 
2h. Periodical neuralgia coming on about midday 
or midnight, Sulph. ^ 6h. Supra-orbital, of gastric 
origin. Kali bich. 3X, gr. ii. 4h. Brow, face and neck, 
especially of right side; intercostal, Chel. i, 2h. In- 
tercostal and supra-orbital of right side. Ran. b. 3, 
2h. Right side of face, and down right arm, followed 
by numbness, slow pulse, Kahn. 3. 2h. Facial neu- 
ralgia, tic, throbbing, Glon. 3, ih. Tic, Staph. 3, ih. 
With great nervousness, pains utterly intolerable, 
worse at night and by warmth; accompanied with 
great thirst, heat and redness of the face, hot sweat 
on head and scalp; toothache, earache, neuralgia of 
face and neck, Cham. 6, ih. Excessive sensitiveness 
of the surface, diffused sensitiveness, Kali i. 30, 
2 — 4h. Pain excited by merely moving the affected 
part, rising to a fearful height; recurring; increased 
by touching, or, if the pain has subsided for a time, 
brought on again by touching, and it soon becomes 
intolerable; in exhausted subjects, Chin. 3, 2h. 
Drawing, pressing pain, commencing lightly, increas- 
ing gradually to a very high degree, and decreasing 
slowly; supra-orbital, Stan. 6, 2h. Right sided, 
paroxysmal, relieved by heat, Magn. phos. 6x, gr.ii. — 
30, T — 4h. Facial; intolerable drawing in the ear; 
pain in flashes excited by the least movement (clench- 



174 N I C — N I P 

iiig the teeth or touching them with the tongue); 
face red, acid eructations, Verbasc. 3, 2h. Supra- and 
infra-orbital neuralgia, Arg. n. 6, 2h. Left infra- 
orbital neuralgia extending into temple; syphilitic, 
Mez. 3, 2h. Rheumatic, worse on the approach of 
storms, Rhod. 3, 2h. In the bones with swellings, 
Phyt. 3, 2h. Inveterate; syphilitic, Kali iod. gr. iii. 
three times a day. Pain, as if a nerve were put on 
the stretch and suddenly let go, worse in warm room, 
• better in cool air, Puis. 3, 2h. Cramping pains asso- 
ciated with coldness and numbness. Plat. 6, 2h. 
Tearing pains in the face; drawing, jerking in the 
jaws; caries, Phos. 3, 2h. General frontal headache, 
accompanied by stabs of pain darting from before 
backward to the occipital region, intra-cranial, no 
disturbance of sensation of the scalp, Zinc, phos 3X, 
gr. ii. 2h. Plantago major x is very useful in almost 
all kinds of neuralgia as a local application. It may 
be painted on the part as often as necessary. See aha 
Headache, Hemicrania, Lumbago, Sciatica, 
Toothache. 

Nicotism. See Tobacco Habit. 

Nightmare. — when due to indiscretion in diet, Nux v. 
3, 4h. (diet must be regulated). When not traceable 
to obvious cause — (i) Kali brom. ix, gr. v. at bed- 
time; (2) PcBonia i, 4h. 

Night Screaming in Children. See Screaming. 

Night-Sweat. See Hectic Fever, Perspiration. 

Nipples. — Sore). — (r) Calendula \o\\o\i (a teaspoonful to 
half ateacupful of water); (2) Arnica lotion ^Arn $ 
gtt. XX. to a pint of water); (3) Hamamelis lotion 
{Ham. * gtt. XX to a pint of water) ; (4) Glycerole of 
Hydrastis ( one teaspoonful of Hydrastis $ to a table- 



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spoonful of glycerine); (5) Lotion oi Benzoic acid 
[fifteen grains of pure Benzoic acid, three drachms 
(teaspoon fuls) of rectified spirit of wine, eighi ounces 
of distilled water — the acid to be dissolved in the 
spirit, and the water added and well shaken.] — The 
lotions to be used and the glycerole applied after 
each application of the child; the nipples to be 
washed before the child is again applied. This must 
be particularly attended to. I have recorded a case 
in which the use of Calendula to the nipples gave rise 
to poisoning of the infants {Homoeopathic World, 
Aug., 1891, p. 355). 

PainfuI/. — Pain felt after each application of the child, 
PhelL 3, 4h. Neuralgic pain shooting from the point 
of the nipple through to the shoulder blade, Croton t. 

Nodes. — On the bones of the skull, Kali bich. 3X, gr. ii. 
8h. Soft, non-syphilitic nodes, Sil. 6, 8h. Syphilitic 
nodes, Kali iod. gr. v. — 30, 8h. See also Exostosis. 

Noma Pudendi. Ars. 3, 4h. 

Noises in the Head. — Chronic cases, Kali iod. 30, a 
single dose to be allowed to act. Buzzing, roaring, 
singing, or hissing, Chiniii. sul. 3X. gr. ii , 8h. Buz- 
zing, whistling, hissing, singing. Dig. 3, /\h. Roar- 
ing, with giddiness and difficult hearing, Sod. salicyl. 
3x, 4h Ringing, tingling, with deafness, as if ear 
stopped, Carbon, sul. 3, 4h. Roaring, thundering, 
with deafness, the hearing being better in a noise. 
Graph 6, 4h. When due to recent catarrh of Kus- 
tachian tube (i) Hydrast. 3, 4h.; (2) Merc. sol. 6, 4h. 

Nose. — B1.EKDING FROM. — In general, Mill. 3, yi^i. 
From a blow, Am. 3, ^h. With throbbing headache 
and flushed face. Bell. 3, %\i. Bright red blood, on 



176- NOS 

getting up in the morning, Bry. 3, X^ > ^^^ thrice 
daily as a preventive. Discharge of clotted blood 
in the morning, Nux v. 3, X^-> ^^^ thrice daily. 
Dark, stringy blood, Croc. 3, X^- Frequent and 
profuse, hsemorrhagic diathesis, Phos, 3, X^ — 4^- 
Dark fluid, frequent, haemorrhagic diathesis, Ham. 3, 
Xh — 4h. Tendency to bleeding, with constipation 
and piles, Sul. 3, 6h. Recurrent bleeding without 
appreciable cause, Ferr. phos. 3, gr. ii. 8h. Recur- 
rent bleeding in old people, Carbo v. 6, 8h. When 
preceding or accompanying symptoms of biliousness, 
Chel. 3, 4h. [When the bleeding is very violent, 
cold applications to the spine and, failing this, to the 
genitals, will almost always stop the flow temporarily. 
If this fails, and life is in danger, it may be necessary 
to plug the nostrils.] 

F1.USHING. — Redness of the nose after meals, Apis 3X, 
4h. Redness in young women, Borax 3, 4h. 

INFI.AMMATION {of external nose). — Acute erysipela- 
tous, Bell. I, 2h. Sub-acute, Sul. 3x, 4h. Chronic — 
(i) Aur. mur. 3X, gtt. ii. 4h.; (2) Ac.fluor. 5x, gtt. 
ii. 4h. 

PusTui^K ON NosK. — Petrol. 3, 4h. 

Root of Nosk. — Pressure at, Kali bich. 3, 4h. Pres- 
sive headache at the root of nose. Caps. 3, 4h. 

Tip of Nosk. — Pimple, Am. carb. 3, 8h Pustule, 
Kali broni. 3X, 8h. Soreness, boil. Borax 3, 4h. 
Redness; heat in evenings, Caps. 3, 4h. Redness 
and itching, SiL 6, 4h. Burning, Ac. oxal. 3, 4h. 
Tension, itching, Carb. a. 6, 4h. 

Soreness of. — Graphites 6, 8h; locally, vaseline at 
bedtime. Suppurating nostrils, soreness, pustula- 



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tion, Kali bich. 3X, gr. i., 4h. See Chaps ; see also 
Catarrh, Cold, Hay Asthma, Ozsena, i^olypus. 

Nostalgia. See Home Sickness. 

Numbness. — Numbness and tingling, Aco. 3, 2h. Numb- 
ness of the whole body, accompanied by pricking; 
numbness and insensibility of arms and legs, Phos. 
3, 3h. A numb pain all over one side; numbing, 
creeping sensation in hands and feet, Ars. 3, 3h. 
Sensitive, numb sensation here and there, especially 
on the head, always in small spots; numbness and 
rigidity, especially in the evening in bed; tense, 
numb sensation in forehead; in zygomatic and malar 
processes, as if bones of the head were beings, rewed 
together; benumbing pressure above right crbit; 
cramp-like sensation of numbness in left malar 
bone; in left lower teeth; crawling in the tongue; 
numbness in coccyx whilst sitting, Plal 6, 3h. 
Crawling sensation worse by heat; numbness of 
lingers and pricking in their tips; numbness, insen- 
sibility, and coldness, Secal. 3, 3h. Parts cold and 
blue; dead feeling as if frozen. Agar. 3, 3h. Numb- 
ness in back and limbs; numbness and sensation of 
swelling in ball of thumb. Acid oxal.^ 3X, 3h. Dead- 
ness and insensibility, numbness of all right side. 
Plumb. 6, 3h. Limbs benumbed, with paralysis; 
deadness, going to sleep, numbness, coldness of 
hands, numbness of the whole body, Cicul. v. 3, 3h. 
Numb feeling over the whole body. Con. j, 3h. 
Numbness of hands and feet; pricking and numb 
sensation in various parts of the body; morbid 
sensitiveness of the skin to the touch, Codeia 3, 3h. 
Numbness of hands and soles of feet, Raph. 3, 3h. 
Numb deadness of ball of heel whilst walking, Ign. 
" 3> 3h 

Nyctalopia ^Night Blindness). — Bell. 3, 4h. 



178 NYM — OVA 

Nymphomania. See Erotomania. 
Obesity. See Corpulence and Diet. 

Odour of Body. — Abominable, Kali tod. gr. i, 81i. 
Fetid, washing makes no difference, Pso. 30, 8h. 
Offensive, with perspiration, Merc. sol. 6, 8h. Like 
garlic, Phos. 3, 5h See also under Perspiration. 

(Edema. -S"*?/? Dropsy, Laryngitis: cEdema Gi^otidis. 

(Esophagus. — Spasmodic stricture, dryness, Naja 6, 2h. 
Food arrested at cardiac end of gullet, Ign. 3, 2h. 
Spasm preventing swallowing, Verat. v. 3, 2h. 
Burning, aggravated by pressure; constriction; diffi- 
culty in swallowing, Merc. corr. 3, 4h. Burning and 
pain, Phos. 3, 4h. Burning, spasmodic contraction, 
and cramp-like pain, Gels. 3, 2h. 

Offensive Breath. See Breath, Fetid. 

Onanism. See Self-abuse, Spermatorrhoea. 

Onychia. See Nails. 

Ophthalmia. 5^^ Eyes: Infi^ammation. 

Opisthotonos. See Tetanus. 

Optic Neuritis. See Eyes: Optic Neuritis. 

Orchitis. See Testicles. 

Otorrhoea. See Ears. 

Ovaries. — Pain in ovaries at puberty. Act. r. 3, 2h. Neu- 
ralgic pain, with colic, Coloc. 3, 2h. Violent cramp- 
ing pain, Naja 6, 2h. Stinging pain; inflammation, 
Apis 3x, ih. Burning pain in, with urinary symp- 
toms, Canth. 3, 2h. Pain, swelling and tenderness 
of ovaries, worse at menses, with menorrhagia, 



O X A — O Z ^ 179 

pregnancy, or gonorrhoea, Ham. 3, ib. Pain in 
ovaries, especially left, extending down thigh, bear- 
ing down pains in uterus; great sexual excitement 
and loss of moral control, Lil. t. 30, 2b. Pain and 
inflammation with scanty or suppressed menstrua- 
tion. Puis. 3, 2h. Chronic induration, Aur. et Nat. 
niur. (chloride of gold and sodium), 3X, gr. v. 8h. 
Chronic affections, with scanty menstruation and 
slow conception, Con. 3, 4h. Chronic induration 
with late returning and scanty menses, Gi^aph. 6, 6h, 
Chronic irritation or induration, with menorrhagia, 
Plat. 6, 6h. Pain in right ovary relieved by pressure, 
Pallad. 6, 4h. Pains in ovaries, especially left, labour- 
like pains in uterus, os feels open, Lack. 6, 2h. Pain 
in ovaries with excessive sensitiveness. Hep. 6, 2h. 

Tumours — (i) lod. i, 4h.; (2) Kali brom. gr. i. 4h.; 
(3) Secale i, 4h.; (4) Apis 3X, 4h. 

Oxaluria. — (Diet to be regulated; open-air exercise; 
cold bathing or sponging in morning, followed by 
brisk rubbing. ) With severe backache, Ac. oxal. 6, 
8h. After this, (i) Ac. nitro-mur. 6, 4h.; (2) Senna 
6, gtt. ii. twice a da}^ With severe colic or irritation 
of urinary passages, Berb. ix, gtt. ii. 4h. 

Ozsena. — (i) Cadmium Sulphuratum, 3X, gr ii. — 30, 8h. 
(2) Hydrastis 3, 4h.; locally, spray of a solution of 
Muriate of Hydrastia^ one grain to the ounce. In 
strumous subjects, lod. 3X, 4h. In strumous and 
syphilitic subjects, wdth or without caries, Aur . met. 
6, 6h. In psoric subjects, Psor. 30, 4h. From over- 
dosing with mercury. Ac. nit. 6, 4h. With discharge 
of thick plugs. Kali bich. 3X, gr ii. — 30, 4h. [Spray 
of Condy's fluid solution is sometimes useful to 
remove the odour,] When there is syphilitic taint, 
Luet. 200, once a week. 



i8o P A I — P A R 

Painter's Colic. See Lead Colic. 

Palpitation. See under Heart. 

Pancreatitis. — (i) Kali iod. gr ii. 4h. ; (2) Merc. sol. 6, 
4h. ; (3) Iris v. 3, 2h.; (4) Atrop. sul. 3X, gr. ii. 4h. 

Paralysis. — AgiTans. — Merc. cor. 3, 4h. When the 
paralysis is of mercurial origin, or should the action 
of Merc. cor. need supplementing, Hyos. 3, 4h 

Faciai,. — When from cold, at first. Aeon. 3, ih. If it 
does not soon yield, Caustic 6, 2h. alt. After these, 
or from the beginning when there is tenderness of 
the part affected. Kali chlor. 3, 2h. With swelling; 
sensation as of a cobweb on the face. Graph. 6, 4h. 

Gknerai. Parai^ysis of the Insane — In the early 
stages, restlessness, excitement. Bell. 3, 2h. Much 
tremor of the limbs, Merc. <:. 3, 2h. Fibrillary twitch- 
ing, Phos. 3, 4h. When the exaltation of ideas is 
very marked, Can. Ind. 3, 2h. 

Hemipi^eGIa. — Especially in old men; mental and 
bodily weakness, Baryt. c. 6, 4h. With digestive 
disorder; when it has come on after over eating or 
drinking, Nux v. 3, ih. With great despondency 
and inclination to weep, Aur. tnet 12, 2h. If rigidity 
threatens, the limb must be kept very warm, active 
and passive movements practised, faradic electricity 
used three times a day for fiften minutes; the cur- 
rent should not be strong; internally, Secale i, 4h 

HysXericae — ( r ) Ign. 3, 2h ; (2) especially of muscles 
of neck, Cocc. I. 3, 2h. 

Infantiee. — At the beginning, coldness of the limbs; 
the child cannot bear to be covered, Secale 3, 4h. 
Later, especially where there is obstinate constipa- 
tion, Plumb. 6, 4h. [In all cases the limbs must be 



PAR i8i 

kept warm, allowed to remain in a hot bath (iro° F.) 
for fifteen minutes night and morning; rubbed, mas- 
saged, and exercised regularly.] 

IvABIO-GIvOSSO-Pharyngkai,.— (i) Bell. 3, 2h.; (2) 
Plumb. 6, 4h.; (3) Caust. 6, 4h. 

IvEAD. — (i) Opium IX, 2h. Persistent faradisation, 
a weak current, fifteen minutes tbree times a day. 
The patient must persevere in attempts to use his 
muscles. (2) Alumen 6, 4h. (3) Cupr. 6, 4h. 

LoCAiv. — Drop hand or drop-foot (when not due to 
lead-poisoning), Plumb. 6, 4h. Paralysis of the eye 
muscles, Con. 3, 4h. Of the muscles of the neck, 
head cannot be supported, Cocc. I. 3, 4h. Of the 
sphincters — (i) Physoslig. 3, 4h. ; (2) especially when 
there is expulsion of urine and faeces, on coughing, 
laughing, &c., Caust. 6, 4h. Writers' cramp — (i) 
Gels I, 4h. ; (2) Cupr. 6, 4h. 

Of Larynx. See Voice. 

[The use of electricity must be taken advantage of 
in most local paralyses. In lead poisoning a gentle 
faradic current, and in writers' cramp the continuous 
current must be used persistently; massage, and 
active and passive movements should also be used 
as occasion requires.] 

Parapi^kgia. — F'rom accident, Am. 3, 2h.; locally, the 
spine to be rubbed with liniment consisting of Am. 
IX, a drachm, spirit of wine one ounce, distilled water 
to three ounces. This to be used night and morning, 
and to be rubbed on for eight minutes with the hand. 
If this fails to bring about improvement in one or two 
weeks, Hyperic. i, 2h., and a liniment of Hypericiitn 
^^ in the same proportions to be applied in the same 
way. Afterwards, Gels, i, 4h. From exhaustion; 



i82 PAR — PEM 

from contusion; sexual excess; post- diphtheritic, 
Arg. n. 6, 4h. With rigidity, Ac. oxaL 3, 4h. With 
rigidity, spasm, and exaggerated reflexes, Lathyrus 
sativus 3, 4h. ; after Lathyrus, Secale i, 4h. If there 
is syphilitic history, or if the others fail, (i) Kali iod. 
gr. iii. 4h.; (2) Me?'c. cor 3X, gtt i. 4h. Spasmodic 
paralysis with wasting of muscles, Cupr. 6, 4h. 
Paraplegia from rheumatism, with restlessness and 
desire to keep moving about, Rhus t. 3, 4h. Great 
weakness of the muscles, especially of lower limbs, 
heaviness, weariness, hands and feet go to sleep, 
pains, numbness; great sexual excitement, Ac. pic, 
30, 6h. 

Post-Diphtheritic —(r) Gels, i, 2h.; (2) Cocc. L 2,y 
2h. Paraplegia, A7g. n. 6, 4h. 

Progrkssivk MUSCUI.AR ATROPHY. — (i) Phos. 3, 4h. ; 
(2) Plumb. 6, 4h. 

Pseudo-Hypertrophic Parai^ysis.— /%^j. 3, 4h. 

Parametritis. — {Inflammation of the cellular tissue of 
the pelvis.) — Throbbing, swelling, pain, BelL 3, ih. 
If it does not soon yield to this, Merx. soL 6, ih. If, 
in spite of this, it goes on to suppuration, Hep. 6, 2h. 
After it has discharged, if the discharge is thin, Silic, 
6, 4h. See also Abscess. 

Parturition. See Labour. 

Pelvic Cellulitis. See Parametritis. 

Pelvic Haematocele.— When bleeding is still going on, 
Ham. I, ^h. For absorption — (i) Am. i, 2h.; (2) 
Sul. I, 4h. 

Pelvic Peritonitis. See Perimetritis. 

Pemphigus.— Acute, Rhus t. 3, 2h. Chronic, Arsen. 3, 
2h. S3^philitic, Merc. c. 3, 2h. 



PER 183 

Pericarditis. See under Heart. 

Perichondritis. — [The following refer especially to affec- 
tions of the rib-cartilages; for other cartilages, see 
under Joints.] Burning; corroding, gnawing; pres- 
sive shooting, Bell. 3, 2h. Gnawing, pricking, biting, 
orburuiug, Ruta^y, 2h. Stitches, tenderness, burning, 
aching, Oleand. 3, 2h. Great sensitiveness; stick- 
ing or dull pressive pain, Plumb, met. 6, 4h. Stitches, 
worse on inspiration, Cham. 6, 2h. Lancinations in 
cartilages of lower ribs, worse by inspiration. Act. r. 
3, 2h. Intermittent dull stitches, worse, Sept.-Nov. 
Arg. met. 6, 4h. See also Bones : Periostitis. 

Perimetritis-. — Pain, tenderness, Merc. cor. 3. ih. Swell- 
ing, Bell. 3, ih See also Peritonitis. 

Periostitis. See Bones : Periostitis. 

Peritonitis. — Acute. — At the commencement, soon after 
a chill has been taken, w^hen there is fever, anxiety, 
and abdominal pain, Aco. 3, ih. When effusion has 
taken place, much pain, not much fever, Canth. 3, ih. 
Considerable fever, violent sharp pain, much effusion, 
Bry. 3, 2h. Griping cutting pains, abdomen much 
swollen, excessively tender, tenesmus, Merc. cor. 3, 
ih. When there is much tympanites and colic, Coloc. 
3, j/^h. A feeling as if a spot were griped with the 
nails; the transverse colon standing out like a pad. 
Bell. 3, ih. [Locally, light poultices, on which, if 
there is distension, a few drops of turpentine should 
be sprinkled, may be applied for half an hour at a 
time, and left off for half an hour, the body being 
covered with flannel during the intervals between the 
poultices.] Chronic. — The same measures as in acute 
peritonitis, according to symptoms. When there is 
much plastic effusion, Merc. dulc. 3X, gr. ii. 6h. 
When there is much distension with constipation and 



i84 PER 

flatulence, pains shooting from right to left, Lye, 3, 
gr. ii. 6h. When there is diarrhoea, see DiarrhoBa. 

Dropsy rkmaining after. — Apis 3X, 2h. See Dropsy. 
PuERPERAi,. — Pain, fever, anxiety, restlessness, Aco, 
3, ih. Sharp, cutting pains worse by the least motion 
or pressure, relieved by lying on affected side, Bry, 
3, ih. [Ivocally, flannels wrung out of hot water, 
with a few drops of turpentine sprinkled on, may be 
kept applied to the body. Hot vaginal douche of 
Condy's solution (red,, two teaspoonfuls to the pint) 
three times a day.] 

TuBERCUi<AR. — Bacil. 30 — 200, gl. iv. once a week. 
For acute symptoms (i) Ars. 3, 2h.; (2) Calc, c. 30, 
2h. Intercurrently, if the reaction is slow, these 
medicines being omitted for a week, Sul. 3, 4h. Hectic 
fever, Chi 3, 2h. Much emaciation, Abrot 30, 4h. 

Perityphlitis.— (i) Lack. 6, 2h ; (2) Ars. 3, 2h. With 
gloomy homesick feeling, vomiting of very green 
bile, deadly nausea, severe ileo-csecal pain. Iris minora 
3, 2h. After these, the medicines as recommended 
for Peritonitis should be given; and the same local 
treatment in all cases. 

Perspiration. — From debility after exhausting diseases, 
Chi. 3, 4h. Profuse perspiration all over, especially 
on the genitals; night sweat, Ac. phos. i, 4h. Ex- 
hausting perspiration all over; perspiration after 
waking; profuse night sweat; on head; forehead; 
head and chest; head and hands, Fhos. 3, 4h Dis- 
orders of perspiration in persons subject to skin 
diseases, and scrofulous subjects, and from repercus- 
sion of eruptions, Sul. 3 — 30, 8h. Sweat offensive; 
odour of bad eggs. Staph. 3, 8h. Excessive perspi- 
ration with nerv^ous depression; with flushes of the 
menopause; in phthisis; xmilaX^ral, Jabora7idi 2,, 4h. 



PER — PHT 185 

Offensive night-sweat, Ca7'b. a. 6, 4h. Urinous odour, 
Ac. 7iit. 12, 8h. Perspiration of the head, especially 
at 3 A.M., not offensive, Calc, c. 6, 4h. Offensive per- 
spiration of head or feet, Sil. 6, 4h. Glutinous or 
sour perspiration; moist palms, Ac. fluor. 3, 6h. 
Excessive; viscid; of strong odour; at night; in 
fevers; '^hidrosis pedum," Merc. sol. 6, 4h. Fetid 
perspiration in arm-pits; tender feet with perspira- 
tion more or less offensive, Petr. 3, 4h. Perspiration 
on waking, dry heat during sleep (cold hands and 
feet), Samb. 3, 4h. 

Pertussis. See Whooping-cough. 

Pharyngitis. See Throat. 

Phimosis. — Congenital. — Forcible dilatation or circum- 
cision. Acquired. — 3Ierc. sol. 6, 4h.; locally, Hama- 
melis lotion (ten drops to the half-pint) to be kept 
applied on linen. The same operation as for congen- 
ital phimosis may be required. 

Phlebitis. See Veins. 

Phlegmasia Alba Dolens. — Pain, fever, restlessness, 
anxiety, Aco. 3, ih. Pain and tenderness aiong the 
vein trunks, chilly, but does not like to be covered. 
Puis. 3, ih. [Locally, the limb must be swathed in 
cotton-wool and kept moist. If there is fetid dis- 
charge, a vaginal douche of a hot Condy solution 
(a teaspoonful to a pint) given twice daily.] 1^ Puis. 
does not appear to do good, Ham. i, ih. After both 
have been tried, Bism. i, gr. ii. 3h. 

Photophobia. ^-^^Eyes: Sight. 

Phrenitis. See Brain, Congksxion of. 

Phthisis Pulmonaiis. See Consumption. 
13 



i86 PHY— PI^E 

Physometra {Air in the Uterine Passages). — (i) Brom. 
3, 4h.; (2) Ac. phos, i, 4h. 

Piles. See Haemorrhoids. 

Pimples. See Acne. 

Pityriasis {Scurf). — in debilitated subjects; patients 
with fair skins, Ars. 3, 4h Dry, scurfy, irritable 
scalp; falling off of hair, Ac. fluor. 3, 4h. With 
loss of hair and great itching, Mezer. 3, 4h. Moist 
scurf of the head, Sep. 6, 4h. Scalp scaly, with 
distressing itching, humid, faUing off of hair, Graph. 
6, 4h. 

Placenta, Retained. See Labour: Retained Pi,a- 

CENTA. 

Plethora. — Spare diet, abstinence from alcohol and red 
meat, active open-air exercise, Ars. 6, 8h. 

Pleurisy. — At the commencement, before effusion has 
occurred, heat, restlessness, anxiety, Aco. 3, ih. 
When plastic effusion has taken place, sharp cutting 
pains making all motion painful, Sulph. 3, ih. 
Fluid effusion, not much fever, Canth. 3, ih. Much 
fever, violent pain in the side, much effusion, Bry. 3, 
ih. When the pleurisy has become chronic, with 
formation of pus and tendency to set up phthisis, 
Hep. s. 6, 4h. If the effusion is excessive, tapping 
must be considered, the indications being threaten- 
ing asphyxia, danger of fainting, and no evidence of 
improvement. If the fluid is long in being absorbed, 
after the acute stage is passed, Ars. 3, 4h. ; if this 
fails. Apis 3X, 2h. 

Empyema.— (i) Hep. s. 6, 2h,; (2) Sil. 6, 2h.; (3) Ferr. 
mur. 3x, gtt. v. 2h. When there is great prostra- 
tion and hectic fever, Chi. 3, 2h. Tapping may be 
required. 



PIvE — PNE 187 

HydroThorax. — (i) Apis 3X, 2h.; (2) Ars. 3, 3h. See 
Eropsy. 

Pleurodynia. — At the commencement, from a chill, 
fever, restlessness, pain on motion, Aco. 3, ih. 
Afterwards, if muscular, pain, depression. Act. r. 
3, ih. If from over-exertion. Am. 3, ih. If the 
seat of pain is on the right side, Chel. i, ih. ; after 
Chel., Asclep. tub. i, ih. When on the left side 
Ranicnc. bulb, i, ih. When purely neuralgic,* if 
symptomatic of uterine disorder, or in hysterical 
girls, Act. rac. 3, ih. In others, Ars. 3, 2h. See 
also Neuralgia. 

Plica Polonica. — (The hair must be cut as close to the 
scalp as possible, and scrupulous cleanliness ob- 
served.) — K\) Lye. 6, 4h. ; (2) Vine. m. 3, 4h. 

Pneumonia. — AcuTK. — At the commencement, before 
physical signs are pronounced, pain, fever, anxiety, 
Aeon. 3, ih. When exudation has already occurred, 
rusty sputa (i) Phos. 3, ih.; (2) Tubere. K, 6—30, 
/|h. Typhoid pneumonia, great nervous depression; 
pneumonia coming on during the course of fever, 
Phos. 3, ih. Great prostration, thirst, anxiety, rest- 
lessness, Ars. 3, ih Pneumonia of delirium tremens; 
catarrhal pneumonia; broncho-pneumonia in chil- 
dren and old persons, Ant. tart. 3, 2h. Pleuro-pneu- 
monia, sharp pains caused by the least motion, 
relieved by lying on affected side, Bry. 3, ih. Rusty 
expectoration, weakness, trembling, numbness of 
extremities, Phos. 3, ih. When the cough is espe- 
cially troublesome at night, disturbing sleep, a few 
doses of Hyoscy. 3 may be given at half^h our intervals. 
When a cough lingers after physical signs have dis- 
appeared, Sulph. 3, 4h 

Chronic. — When the lung does not clear after the 



i88 P O L — P R E 

acute stage is passed, ^rs. iod. 3X, gr. ii. immediately 
after food three times a day. If the sputa are rusty, 
Phos. 3, 4h. If there are sharp pains in chest on 
breathing or motion, Bry. 3, 4h. If the expectora- 
tion becomes purulent, Hepar 6, 3h Yellowish- 
green expectoration, depression, unpleasant taste in 
the mouth, sluggish circulation, coldness, Lye. 6, 2h. 

See also Consumption. 

Polypus. — Of Nose. — (i) Tfuija 30, 6h.; locally, Thuja 
4>, to be used as paint night and morning; i 2) Calc. c, 
30, 6h., Thuja ^, locally; (3) Kali bichr. 3X, gr. ii. 
6h. ; locally, the polypi to be painted with a solution 
of Kali bichr. (gr. ii. — gi.) night and morning; (4) 
Ac, nit. 6, 6h.; (5) Teiicr. ix, 6h.; locally Teucrium 
snuff or paint with Teucr. ^. When accompanied 
with asthmatic rose-cold symptoms, or sick head- 
ache. Sang. 3, 8h. Polypus bleeding easily by 
touch; green or yellow mucus from nose, Phos. 3, 
8h. Chronic nasal-pharyngeal discharge, chilliness, 
debility, Psor. 30, 6h. 

Of Ears See under Ears. 

Of Uterus. See Fibroma. 

Polyuria. See Diabetes, Urine. 

Porrigo. See Eczema : Capitas. 

Pregnancy, Disorders of: — 

BackachEc — With sense of weakness and dragging in 
the loins, Kali c. 6, 4h 

BI.ADDER Troubi.es. — Sympathetic tenesmus — f i) 
Bell. 3, 4h.; (2) Nux v. 3, 4h. ; (3) Puis. 3, 4h. With 
burning and scalding, Canth. 3, 4h. Incontinence 
of urine, expelled by slightest exertion, coughing or 
sneezing, Caust. 6, 4h. 



PRE 189 

.Breasts. — Painful — (i) Coniiim 3, 2h.; (2) Bry. 3, 2h. 

Cough. — With oppression of breathing, Niix v. 3, 2h. 
Morning cough, Bry. 3, 2h. Hoarse or hollow cough 
with expulsion of urine, Caust. 6, 2h. 

Cramps. — (i) Verat. a. 3, 4h.; (2) Nux v. 3, 2h. 

Digestive Disorders: — 

Toothache. — If there is* caries, Kreas. 3, 2h. If 
there is no caries — (i) Magnes. c. 6, 2h. ; (2) Sep 6, 2h. 

Salivation. — {1) Jaborandi 3X, 4h.; (2) Merc. sol. 
6, 4h.; (3) Sul. 3, 4h. 

. Depraved Appetite. — (i) (as for chalk) Calc. c. 6, 
4h.; (2) (as for cinders) Carb. v. 6, 4h. For dry 
food, as oatmeal, &c., Alimiiyia 6 — 30, 4h. 

Heartburn. — With acidity, Calc. c. 6, 4h. With- 
out acidity — (i) Puis. 3, 4h.; (2) Capsic. 3, 3h. 

3forning Sickness. — W'ith moist white tongue, 
Ptcls. 3, 2h. With browTi tongue; in spare, dark 
subjects, Nux v 3, 2h. Food rejected as soon as 
taken — (i) Ipec. 3, 2h.; (2') Nux v. i, 2h. Almost 
purely sympathetic — (i) Apomorph. 3, 2h. ; (2) Kreas. 
3, 2h. Continued sick feeling, day and night, with- 
out vomiting, Tabac. 3, 2h Incessant nausea with 
or without vomiting, Petrol. 3, 2h. [Food should be 
taken frequently, in small quantities, and the medi- 
cines given about a quarter of an hour before food. 
The patient should endeavour to eat immediately 
after vomiting has taken place.] 

Constipation. — Collins. 3, 3h. 

Diarrhoea. — Stools chiefly at night. Puis. 3, 4h 
With prostration and loss of flesh, Ac. phos. r, gtt. 
ii. 4h. 



I90 P R E — P R O 

Fai.sk Pains. — (i) Secale 3, 2h.; (2) Caulo, 3, 2h. 

Liver Spots — Sep. 6, 4h. 

Mkntai, Disturbances. — Irritability or depression, 
Act. r. 3, 3I1. Crossness, Cham. 6, 3h. Febrile 
sleeplessness, Aco, 3, 2I1. *' Fidgets," Cham. 6, 3I1. 

Pruritus Vui.v^. — Ambra. 6, 4I1. 

See also under general headings, Back, Bladder, 
Cough, Constipation, &c.; ^/^c> Miscarriage. 

Presbyopia. See^^^%\ Sight. 

Prickly Heat. See Lichen. 

Proctitis. — Acute, with tenesmus — (i) Aloe 3, ih.; (2) 
Podoph. 6, ih. Subacute with passage of much 
mucus, Colch. 3, 2h. Chronic, purulent discharge, 
tendency to stricture — (i) (especially if syphilitic) 
Ac. nit. 6, 4h. ; (2) Phos. 3, 4h. 

Progressive Muscular Atrophy.— (i) Phos. 3, 4h.; 
(2) Plumb, 6, 4h. 

Prolapse. Of anus and uterus. See Anus, Uterus. 

Prosopalgia. See Toothache, Neuralgia. 

Prostate. — Disease of — Acute inflammation, as from 
gonorrhoea, (i) Thuja 3, 2h. (2) Puis. 3, 2h. 
Subacute, Kali iod. gr. i, 4h. Chronic or acute en- 
largement, difficulty in passing urine or burning 
whilst urinating, Sabal serrul. 3X, 2 — 4h. Chronic 
enlargement. Solidago virga-aurea, 3X, 2— 4h. 
Chronic irritation after an acute attack, Staphis. 3, 
4h Inflammation in scrofulous or tuberculous sub- 
jects, Iod, 3x, 4h. When suppuration has occurred, 
Merc. sol. 6, 3h. Chronic suppuration, Ac. nit. 6, 4h. 
Chronic enlargement in old men, Arg. nit. 3X, 4h. 



P R O— P U R 191 

Proud Flesh. See Excrescences, 
Prurigo. See Irritation. 

Pruritus Ani. See Anus, Itching: and Irritation. 
Pruritus Vulvae. See Irritation. 

Psoriasis. — General, acute or chronic — (i) Ars. 3, 4h.; 
(2,) Ant. tart. 6, 4h.; (3,1 Petrol. 3, 4h.; (^4) Ac. 
Chrys. 3X, gr. i. 8h. Behind the ears; palms or 
backs of the hands; syphilitic psoriasis, Graph. 
6, 6h. Spots having a burning pain when touched; 
much irritation; eruption on the ears, Cicut. v. 3, 
4h. [In all cases alcohol must be abstained from.] 

Pterygium. — See ujider Eyes: Granular Inflamma- 
tion. 

Ptosis. — See under Eyes. 

Ptyalism. See Salivation. 

Puerperal Convulsions. See Labour, 

Puerperal Fever. See Labour. 

Puerperal Mania. See Labour. 

Purging. See DiarrhcEa. 

Purpura. — Simple, 7ion-fehrile — (i) Am. 3, 2h.; (2] 
Phos. 3, 2h. ; (3) where the blood-vessels are at fault 
Ham. 3, 2h. Rheumatic Purpura — with fever, pain; 
in the limbs and stiffness, (i) Aeon. 3, ih. ; (2) 3Ierc. 
sol. 6, ih. Restlessness, general soreness, pains 
worse at rest, Rhus z/. 3, 2h. When the fever is of a 
low type, Ars. 3, 2h. Hce^norrhagic Purpura — 
where bleeding takes place from the nose, gums and 
other surfaces, palpitation, paleness of skin and 
mucous membranes, slight wounds bleed easily, Phos. 



192 PUR — P YE 

3, 4h. Intolerable itching, restlessness, debility, 
soreness, stiffness, affections of the joints, Rhus v. 3, 
2h. Varicose diathesis, passive haemorrhage, bruised 
and tired feeling all over the body. Ham. 3, 2h. 
Spongy gums, fetid odour from mouth, muscles 
flabby, swelling of ankles, Me7X. viv. 6, 2h. Aggra- 
vation of all symptoms after sleep, dryness of throat, 
without thirst, external throat very sensitive to 
touch, great physical and mental exhaustion, icy 
coldness of feet. Lack. 6, 4h. With great nervous 
depression, Ac.phos. ix, gtt. ii. 2h. Disorganization 
of the blood, Crotal. 3, 2h. 

Purulent Ophthalmia. See Eyes: Ophthai^mia. 

Pustule, Malignant. See Malignant Pustule. 

Pyaemia. — After wounds or surgical operations. Am. 3, 
ih.; locally, a lotion of Am. 3X, two drachms to the 
half-pint of distilled water. After infection with 
purulent material (as dissecting wound) or exposure 
to foul emanations, Lach. 6, ih.; locally, a compress 
of the same, one drachm to two ounces. Fever, Pyro- 
gen. 6 — 30, 4h. Blood-poisoning, intolerable stench^ 
Ecchin. x. gtt. i — v. ih. Chronic blood-poisoning, 
with low fever, red tongue, Ars. 3, 4h. With fever 
of the hectic type, Chin. sul. 3X, 4h. When the 
joints become affected, restlessness, pain relieved by 
motion, Rhus t. 3, 2h. When effusion takes place; 
pain aggravated by touch or motion, Bry. i, 2h. 
Where suppuration occurs, Merc. sol. 6, 2h. [The 
symptoms of chronic blood-poisoning are exceed- 
ingly varied, and each case must be treated accord- 
ing to its leading characteristics. See also Dysen- 
tery, Joints, Throat, Heart, &c.] 

Pyelitis, — Acute, Uva ursi $, ih. Where the patient is 
very low, Ars. 3, 2h. 



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Pylorus. — Thickening and constriction, recent, Nux v. 3, 
3h. More chronic, Phos. 3, 4h. When there is pain, 
swelhng, tenderness and signs of abscess, Hep. 6, 2h. 
Chronic suppuration, Sil. 6, 4h. Exhaustion from 
excessive discharge, Chi. 3, 2h. [Medicines must be 
prescribed according to the symptoms. See U7idp.r 

Dyspepsia.] 

Pyrosis. See Dyspepsia, Heartburn, Waterbrash. 

Cluinsy [Simple A eute Inflammation of the Tonsils) — 
Initial chill and fever, with pain and soreness in 
throat. Aeon. 3, ih. hit^r Aeon., if the local action 
intensifies. Baryta c. 6, ih. When suppuration is 
inevitable, Hep. s., 6, ih. 

Rabies. See Hydrophobia. 

Rachitis. See Rickets. 

Ranuk,.— (0 Thtij'a 3, 2h.; {2) Mere, sol., 6, 4h.; (3) 
Cale. c. 6, 4h. 

Rash. See Eruptions, Itching, Nettle-rash, Roseola. 

Rectum, Inflammation oi^. See Proctitis. 

Pain in. — Tenesmus, burning, \dolentpain, Caps. 3, 4h. 
Lancinations shooting upwards, Phos. 6, 4I1. 

PR01.APSE. See Anus, 

Stricture of. — Cancerous, Hydrast. i, 4h.; locally, 
injection of Hydrastis lotion (* 3ii.— gviii.) night 
and morning. Simple, Ac. nit. 6, 4h. 

Straining. See Tenesmus. 

Ulceration.— (I ) Ac. nit. 6, 4h.; (2) Graph. 6, 4h.; 
(^) Sill. 3, 4h.; locally, Hydrastis injection (^ Jii. — 
gviii. ) night and morning. 



194 R E D — R H E 

Red-gum {Lichen strophulus). — (i) Cham. 6, 2h. ; (2) 
Apis 3x, 2h. ; (3) Ajit. crud. 6, 6h. ; to be powdered 
with fullers' earth, and when washed Barilla soap 
should be used. See under Lichen, 

Relapsing Fever. — When the pains are increased by 
movement, Bry, 3, 2h. When the patients are rest- 
less and constantly moving, Rhus t. 3, 2h. When 
gastric symptoms predominate, Bapt. 3, 2h. When 
the bone-pains are very distressing, Eupat, perf. 3, 2h. 

Remittent Fever. — During the attack, Aeon, IX, 2h. 
During the remission, if the fever is not of a typhoid 
type, Chin. sul. ix, gtt. i. — v. 3h. If the fever is of a 
low type, and the patient very weak, Ars. 3X, 3h. If 
there is much sickness, Ipec. ix — 3, j^h. (a few doses 
intercurrently). Children's remittents. Gels, i, 2h. 
Bilious remittents, C^vt. h. 3X, ih. 

Respiration. — As if breathing through a sponge, Phyt. 
3, 4h. As if a fly in the throat, Brom, 3, 4h. 

Retching. See Vomiting. 

Retinitis. See under Eyes. 

Rhagades. See Cracks. 

Rheumatic Fever. See Rheumatism, Acutk. 

Rheumatic Gout (Chronic Rheumatic Arthritis.)— 

In the BarIvY Stage. — Digestion disordered; in fe- 
males, menses scanty; melancholia; spindle-shaped 
swelling of the fingers. Puis. 3, 4h. Accompanying 
uterine disorder or coming on at the change of life, 
the pains worse at night and in wet, windy weather, 
Act. r. 3, 2h. When the pains are w^orst in the small 
joints, Caulo 3, 2h. When the affection of the 
joints is decidedly inflammatory; especially in fe- 



R H E 195 

males if there is menorrhagia, Sabin. 3, 4h. In gouty 
persons, dark hair; tendency to warts or corns, Fer. 
pic. 3x— 3, gr. ii. 8h. 

[The diet should be unstimulating. Wines and malt 
liquors and strongly-spiced food should be avoided. 
A mixed animal and vegetable diet should be ordered, 
nourishing and plenty of it; fish and milk should 
have a prominent place; tomatoes and celery are 
good in their season. The clothing should be warm, 
woollen material or silk next the skin. The joints 
should be kept warm. A warm, dry climate, if prac- 
ticable, is to be advised. The waters and treat- 
ment of Aix-les-Bains or Bath may be tried. The 
joints should be treated locally. They should be 
fomented night and morning, and afterwards rubbed 
with the hand for ten minutes with salad oil, and 
gently moved. As an alternative to the salad oil, 
cod-liver oil or a liniment composed of equal parts 
of Tinct. capsicum, $ and glycerine may be used.] 

In the Later Stage. — When it is evident that the 
disease is becoming chronic, or advancing, the medi- 
cines named above will not be sufficient. Pain, 
heat, swelling of joints, worse on touch or motion, 
great loss of flesh, ravenous appetite, lod. 3X, 2h. 
Pains worse in cold damp weather, low fever, rest- 
lessness, anxiety, Ars, 3, 2h. The diet and local 
measures as advised above should be continued. 
The medicines already named and those advised 
below under Rheumatism, Chronic, may be given 
according to particular indications. 

Eheumatism. — Acute and Subacute (Rheumatic 
Fever).— Fever, restlessness, anxiety, pain in joints, 
Aeon. 3, ih. After Aeon., much pain in the joints, 
the least motion is unendurable, Bry 3, ih. When 
there is great restlessness, the pain being relieved 



196 R H E 

by moving about, Rhus t 3, ih. Heat and sweat of 
head, cold clammy feet and hands, violent perspiration 
at 3 A. M., pains aggravated by every movement, 
Calc. carb. 30, 2h. When the pain attacks the back, 
back of the neck, and back of the head, with rest- 
lessness, and pain in the eyes, Act. r, i, ih. Shift- 
ing rheumatic pains in all parts with soreness, w^orse 
by motion wnth pains in liver, Stell. med. 2x. 2h. 
(Locally, StelL med. 4>, 3j —Olive oil, gi.) Sub- 
acute rheumatism from getting cold and wet, Diilc, 
3, ih. Subacute — knees, ankles, and small joints 
of hands and feet affected; shifting about, coming 
on wdth faulty digestion; the pains woise at night, 
in a warm room and by rest, better in the open air 
and by motion, Puis. 3, 2h. Similar pains w^hen the 
patient hugs the fi.re and desires w-arm wraps, Ars. 
3, 4h. iVcute, non-febrile rheumatism of the joints, 
the pains shifting much, Kahn. 3, 2h. The pain 
remaining fixed in one or more joints, swelling 
and inflammation-, offensive or oily perspirations, 
nightly aggravations, Merc. viv. 6, 6h, \Vhen the 
urine is strong-smelling and high-coloured, Ac benz. 
3x, 2I1. Pericarditis. {See under Heart,) Endo- 
carditis. [See undef Hearts For pain, sw^elliiig, 
and joint- Vv'eakness remaining after an attack, Sul. 
3 — 30, 6h., and at increasing intervals Musvular 
pains and stiffness after, Am, 3, 2h. Weakness 
after — (i) Chi7i. sul. 3X, gr. ii. 4h. , (2) Calc. phos. 
3, gr. ii 8h. 

Hyperpyrexia. — When due to affection of the brain 
and its meninges, intense pain m back of the head 
and along the spine. Act. r. ix ih. When due to 
supervention of meningitis, see Meningitis, Simple 
hyperpyrexia, see Hyperpyrexia. 

GONORRHCEAE. — Great pains^ fever, restlessness, anx- 



R H E 197 

iety, Aeon. 3, ih. [An occasional dose of Medor. 30 
to 200 will often restore a suppressed gonorrhoea and 
cure the rheumatic symptoms ] After Acon.^ if 
there is swelling of joints, perspiration, discharge, 
Merc. s. 6, ih. Gonorrhoeal, Arg. n 3 — 30, 2h. 
Gonorrhoea suppressed, pains flying from joint to 
joint, Pills, 3, ih- Much pain at the conclusion of 
passing water, Sarsa. 6, 2h. The same medicines as 
advised for acute and subacute rheumatism may be 
given in gonorrhoeal, according to indications. [A 
course of Thitja 30, 8h. , for a few days may be given 
as an intercurrent remedy when the case does not 
respond readily.] 

Syphilitic — Periosteal rheumatism, syphilitic or mer- 
curial, Kah tod. gr. ii. — 30, 6h. Periosteal rheuma- 
tism, when the patient is sensitive to cold and has not 
been treated vnih. mercurials, Mere, sol^ 6, 6h. Swell- 
ing on the bones — (i) Kali bichr 3X, gr. ii. 6h.; 
\2) Phytolaeea 3, 2h. See also Bone: Periostitis. 

MuscuivAR AND LoCAL. — Stiff- neck from cold; rheu- 
matic ophthalmia, Aeo. 3, 2h. Acute muscular pains, 
Maerotin 3X, gr. ii. 2h. [Turkish or Russian baths.] 
Stiffness, rheumatic pains, jerking, spasms, Ant, t, 6, 
2h. Bruised pain in back; weakness and weariness 
of all the limbs; tremors; pains worse on motion, 
come on worse just when falling asleep and wake the 
patient, Mej^e. sol. 6, ^h. See also Ankle, Back, 
Diaphragm, Jaw, Joints, Knees, Lumbago, 
Myalgia, Stiff-neck, &c. 

Chronic — [In all cases of acute rheumatism, when the 
symptoms of active inflammation have subsided, 
great attention nmst be paid to the joints They 
must not be allowed to become stiff. Movement 
must be insisted on; and if the patient is unable to 
move the joint himself, passive movements must be 



198 RHE 

exercised. The joint must be kept warm; and some 
stimulating oleaginous liniment, such as one of equal 
parts of Tinct. of Capsicum 4> and glycerine, should 
be rubbed in for fifteen minutes three times a day. 
Medicines according to their indications may be 
given as recommended above under Rheumatisni : 
Acute and Subacute:. Also the following medi- 
cines may be given as indicated.] In patients sub- 
ject to skin eruptions; acidity; sinking at the pit of 
the stomach, worse in the forenoon, pains worst at 
night, Sul. 6, 8h. Persons who suffer from acidity, 
cold clammy feet and hands, heat of head and per- 
spiration, pains worse by motion, Calc. c. 6, 8h.; the 
joints to be rubbed every night with Pine Oil and 
wrapped in Pine Wool. Woollen under-garments, 
or else garments made of Pine Wool, are a necess'ty. 
For stiffened or almost immovable joints, with 
thickening of surrounding tissues, lod. 3X, gtt. iii. 
6h. In "bilious" persons of dark hair and com- 
plexion; the pain shooting and tearing, aggravated 
by motion; from exposure to dry cold, Bry. 3, 2h. 
From exposure to dry cold; worse in stormy weather; 
muscular and fibrous tissues affected, Rhod. 3, 2h. 
Pain, stiffness, paralytic or numb sensation; no 
synovial effusion; restlessness, pain worst during 
rest; coldness; from getting wet, Rhus t, 3, 2h. 
[With the application of the Capsicum and glycerine 
liniment, and dry heat, as from a bag of hot salt.] 
From exposure to cold, damp weather, Dulc. 3, 2h. 
Joints and neighbouring bones painful; cold, non- 
inflammatory affections; especially wrists and ankles, 
Ruta 3, 2h. Great coldness and depression of 
animal heat, in gouty subjects. Ledum 3, 2h. Cold 
rheumatism, tearing pains about the joints, Kail 
bichr. 3x, gr. ii. 6h. Synovial affection; the pam 
worse towards evening and at night, at rest, and in 
a warm room; better by motion and in the open air. 



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Puis 3, 3h. When the right knee is most affected, 
Ac, benz. 3X, 3h. Chronic joint affections, especially 
of the knees, connected with urinary difficulties, Berb. 
3, 3h. When the small joints of the hands and feet 
are affected, Caulo. 3, 2h. Small joints of hands, 
symptoms going from right to left. Lye. 6 — 30, 4h. 
Tearing pains, in warm weather superficial, in cold 
weather deeper, worse at night, Colch. 3, 3h. Pains 
and swelling of joints, which are reddened; feel hot 
to the touch; worse by motion and heat of the bed; 
false anchylosis; suppuration; patients very sensitive 
to cold, Merc, sol. 6, 6h. (The best mineral water 
treatment for chronic rheumatism is to be had at 
Aix-les-Bains abroad, and at Bath, Buxton, Harro- 
gate, Strethpeffer and Woodhall Spa, in this country.) 

See also Lumbago, Myalgia, Stiff'-neck, &c. 

Rickets. — [Where possible the child should be sent to 
the country, where the soil is chalky, and where 
abundance of good milk is procurable; little or no 
medicine will then be required.] In fat children of 
soft fibre, Calc. phos. 3, gr. iii. 8h. In thin puny 
children, Ars. 3, 4h. Rickety children, thin, puny, 
perspiring head and feet, Silic. 6, 4h. Where there 
is tubercular family history, (i) Bacil. 30 — 200, gtt. 
iv. once a week; (2) Phos, 3 — 30, 4h. Scurvy- Rick- 
ets, see Scurvy. 

Rigors. See Shiverings. 

Ringworm. — Of the Scalp and Hairy Parts. — Cut the 
hair short over a small space surrounding the part 
affected, wash well with soap, rinse the soap off 
thoroughly afterwards, dab on a little spirit to stil]^ 
further cleanse away all grease, then rub on a little 
cod-liver oil. This may be done every fourth night. 
Internally Bacil. 30 — 200 gl. iv. once a week. If 
there is disorder of stomach and acidity, retching. 



200 ROS — SAC 

loss of appetite, restlessness at night, cold feet, hot 
head, Sul. 6, 4h. After Sul., Sep. 6, 4h. ; locally (after 
washing the head with soap and water and cutting 
short the hair) a paste of Sepia ix, moistened with 
water, to be applied every night. In plethoric per- 
sons, pale, lymphatic, cold, moist hands and feet, 
Calc c. 30, night and morning. If the local meas- 
ures advised above prove insufficient, paint night and 
morning with glycerole of borax (powdered borax, 
,^i — Glycer. Jiv. ). If there is general debility, Ars, 

3, ah. 

Of the Body. — Tellur. 6, 4h. If it does not speedily 
yield to this, local measures may be adopted as rec- 
ommended for ringworm of the scalp. 

Roseola {Rose Rash). — Bell. 3, 2h. If the fever is 
sharp, Ago. 3, ih. 

Epidemic [Rothehi, Rubella, German Measles). — Aco. 
3, ih., followed if necessary by Bell. 3, ih. The com- 
plications and sequelae are the same as those of 
measles and scarlatina, and must be treated in the 

same way. See Measles, Scarlatina. 
Rotheln. See Roseola, Epidemic. 
Rubella. -S-f^? Roseola, Epidemic. 
Rumbling. See Borborygmi. 

Rupia. — Kali iod. gr. v. — 30, 6h. (Avoid removing the 

crusts. ) 

Rupture. See Hernia. 

Saint Vitus' Dance. See Chorea. 

Sacrum. — violent pain in, aching, bruised, dragging, or 
pressing; aggravated by lying, sitting, or stooping; 
vnth rectal troubles, Berb. 3, 6h. Aching worse by 



S A L — S C A 20I 

walking or standing, with constipation and blind 
piles; sacro iliac articulation, y^sc. h. 3, 4h Draw- 
ing and heaviness, worse in evening, with bleeding 
piles and diarrhoea. Aloe 3, 4h. Pressing or bruised 
pain, stabs on motion, worse by coughing, laughing, 
stooping, or rising from a seat; shooting upward or 
through the great ischiatic foramen and down the 
thighs, Telliir. 6, 4h. Stitches, aching, bruised sen- 
sation, pressure and weight, Agar. 3, 2h. Drag- 
ging pain; with uterine disorders, or loaded urine, 
Sep. 6, 4h. 

Salivation. — Simple, with sore gums and mouth; during 
pregnancy, Merc. s. 6, 4h. In mercurial salivation: 
in pregnancy (after Merc, j.), lod. 3X, 2h. Failing 
Iodine in mercurial cases, Ac. nit. 6, 4h. Accom- 
panying nervous headache, Iris v. 3, 2h. Copious 
flow of saliva after eating, All sat. 3, 4h. From 
nervous causes; in pregnancy, yf^^^ra^z^z 3X, 2h. 

Sarcinse: Vomiting of. See Vomiting. 

Sarcocele {Solid Enlargement of Testes). See Testes. 

Satyriasis. See Erotomania. 

Scabies, See Itch. 

Scalds. See Burns. 

Scalp. — Violent itching, moist, Oleand. 3, 4h. See also 
Dandruff and Ptyriasis. 

Scalled-head. ^^"^ Eczema: Capitis. 

Scapula.— Pain in righX, Juglans c. 3, 4h. 

Scarlatina, or Scarlet Fever :— 

Prophyi^actic. — When there is scarlatina in a family, 
put 20 drops of Bell. 3 into a tumbler of water, and 



202 S C A 

let each member of the household take a teaspoonful 
night and morning. 

SCARi^AlMNA SiMPi^Ex [Simple Scarlet Fever). — Sore 
throat, restlessness, dry skin, fever, Aco. 3, ih. 
When the rash is pronounced, delirium, sore, red 
throat. Bell. 3, ih When the fever is gone, Ars. 
3, \'^' 

SCARI.ATINA Anginosa [Scarlet Fever with Throat 
Complications). — Fauces much swollen, stinging 
pain, Apis 3X, ih. Ulceration of the throat and 
swelling of the external glands of the neck, Crotalus 
3, ih. Septic cases, with symptoms of strangulation; 
enlarged or suppurating glands, Ecchin $ x gtt. i — v, 
I — 2h. Ulceration of the throat, with acrid discharge 
from the nose and soreness of the nostrils. Arum tri- 
phyllum 12, I — 2h. (This medicine, if given in low 
attenuation, must be freshly prepared, or have been 
specially preserved. ) Throat Diphtheritic, see Diph- 
theria. See also below: Scarlatina Maligna. 

SCARi^ATiNA Maligna [Malignant Scarlet Fever). — 
Profound depression, rash delayed, fever high, Wet 
Pack; giving at the same time — if there is great 
mental depression, Cuprum acet. 3X, X^- 1^ ^^ 
disease sets in with livid, rapidly swelling throat, 
patchy, dark-coloured eruption, quick, feeble pulse, 
and oppressed brain, Ailanthus ix, %\i. When the 
shock of the invasion of the disease is safely past, 
should throat symptoms become the most prominent 
feature, the treatment will be as above for Scari^a- 
TiNA Anginosa. 

SCARI.ATINA RheumaTica. — When the patient is rest- 
less, constantly moving about, Rhus t. 3, 2h. Effu- 
sion, into joints and serous cavities, pains worse by 
every movement, Bry. 3, ih. Heart complications, 



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sharp pains, palpitations, Spigel. 3, ih. See Rheu- 
matism, Acute. 

Hyperpyrexia. See Hyperpyrexia. 

Sequel^. — Strangury. — Canth. 3X, ih. 

Albuminuria and Dropsy. — Arsen. 3, 2I1. Bleed- 
ing from the kidneys, Terebinth. 3, 2h. Pack. See 
Kidney : Inflammation. 

Glandular Enlarge^nent in Neck. — Lachesis 6, 3h. 
If suppuration is inevitable. Hep. sul. 6, 3h. 

Deafness and Discharge from the Ear. — Ac. m.ur^ 
I, gtt. ii. 3h. See Ears : Deafness. 

Rheumatic Affections and Heart Disease. See 
Rheumatism, Heart. 

Scars. See Cicatrix. 

Sciatica. — in young people, and from cold draughts, 
Aeon. 3, 4h. Pain worse sitting, relieved somewhat 
by walking, entirely by lying down; sensation as if 
hamstring muscles were too short, Am. niur. 3X, 2h. 
Recent from cold and damp, sensitiveness of the part 
(right side especially), Coloc i, 2h. Intense pain in 
the nerve, accompanied by cramps or numbness, 
Gnaphal. 3, 2h. Pain worse in bed at night, or 
when at rest, Rhus t. 3, 2h. Right sided, pain 
worse in afternoon, aggravation by lying on affected 
side or least touch, Lye. 6 — 30, 4h. In the old and 
debilitated; purely neuralgic; paralysis, Ars. ^, 2h. 
After influenza; frequently left-sided, symptoms of 
both sulphur and arsenicum present, Ars. sul. rub.^ 
6 — 30, 2 — 4h. Exquisite sensitiveness, especially in 
lower extremities, general painfulness of the part, 
especially along the tract of the great nerve, drawing, 
tearing, paralytic pain, Tereb. 3, 2h. Shooting, tear^ 



204 S C I — S C U 

ing, from hip to knee and foot, especially when 
coughing, Caps. 3, 4h. Similar pain, especially if 
aggravated, about 3 a.m., Kali c. 6, 8h. Pain in 
region of hips, Apocy. Can. 3, 4h. Pain as if beaten, 
excited by touch, limbs give way, Ruta i, 2h Pain 
only when stooping or rising from a seat, Nat. suL . 
6, 2h. 

Scirrhus. See Cancer. 

Scleroderma. See Morphoea. 

Sclerotitis. See under Eyes. 

Screaming of Children. — Night screaming. Kali, 
brom. IX, 8h. Weeps all night; sopor interrupted 
by screaming; incessant screaming; Phos. 3, 2h. 
Piteous crying; continual crying and whining, gets 
only little sleeps. Ant. t. 6, 2h. Wakes screaming 
from anxious dreams, Zinc. 6, 4h. Starts from 
anxious dreams and cries out, Bry. 3, 2h Piteous 
moaning and crying, Cham. 6, 2h. Weeping, moan- 
ing, howling, Cicuta v. 3, 2h. Before urine passes, 
Borax 3x, 2h. 

Scrivener's Palsy. See Paralysis, Locai,. 

Scrofulous AiFections. 6'<?^ Glands, Hip-joint Disease, 

Eyes (Ophthalmia), &c. 

Scrotum, Dropsy of. See Hydrocele. 
Scurf. See DandrujBP and Ptyriasis. 

Scurvy. — [^he diet must be corrected, or no medicine 

will be of use: milk, fresh meat and vegetables, and 
lime-juice must be given. When it follows excessive 

feeding with sugar in infants, sugar must be dis- 
continued. The expressed juice of raw beef is of 
great use in the scurvy-rickets of children.] In- 



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ternally, Merc, sol, 3X, gr. 11. 4h. Locally, on open 
sores, compresses of a weak Hamamelis lotion (ten 
drops to the pint); as a wash for the mouth, a solu- 
tion of Potass, chlor, (ten grains to the half-pint). 
Scurvy-rickets, (i) Bry. 3 — 30, 2h, ; (2) Phos. 3 — 30, 
2h ; (3) Rhus t, 3—30, 2h 

Sea-Sickness. — (i) Petrol, 3, 8h. for two days before 
going on board; 2h when the ship starts. (2) For 
a week before the voyage give Coco. I, 3, 6h., and 
every hour or tw^o during the voyage. Vertigo re- 
maining after the voyage^ Coco. I. 3, 2h. (3) When 
there is tendency to bring up blood with straining, 
Am. 30, 6h. before, and ih. during the voyage. (4) 
If sickness comes on during the voyage, Apom. 
3x, 2h. 

Seborrhoea.— /^^. 3^5 4li 

Self-abuse. — Moral treatment is required for this. In 
children, where the moral element of the disease is 
sm 11, kind watchfulness is needed on the part of the 
nurse; m severe cases mechanical restraint must be 
adopted. The following medicines will assist in 
allaying the irritability:— (i) Oiigan. 4, 4h., (2) 
Bap. 6, 4h.; (3) Ac. pier. 3, 4h.; (4) Apis 3X, 4h. 
Should these not suf&ce, give m addition one grain 
of Kali hrom. at bedtime. For consequent debility, 
a carefully regulated, unstimulating diet, Ac. phos. 
IX, gtt. V. in a tumbler of water for a drink at meals, 
fn the way of medicines: fi) China 3, 4h. , (2) Calc, 
phos. 3, gr. ii. 8h. Where there is coldness, constipa- 
tion, loss of power, Nat mur, 6, 8h. Sinking at the 
epigastrium, flushing, pain in occiput, StiL 30, 8h. 
Cold, clammy hands and feet, Calc, c. 30. 4h. Br^in 
exhaustion and irritability with genital weakness, 
Staph. 3, 4h. Loss of confidence, Anacard. 3, 4h. 



2o6 S E N — S I D 

See also Emissions, Erotomania, and Spermator- 
rhoea. 

Sensitiveness. — Peevish, Cham. 6, 4h. Nervous, hysteri- 
cal, Ign, 3, 4h, Great intolerance of light and noise, 
Bell. 3, 4h: 

Septicaemia. See Pyaemia. 

Serpent-bites. See under Stings : of Snakks. 

Sewer Gas Poisoning.— Foul tongue; diarrhoea, Bapt. 
3, ih. Sore throat, Phyt. 3, ih. See also Pyaemia, 

&c. 

Shingles. See Herpes Zoster. 

ShiveringS {Rigors). — immediately after a chill has been 
taken, Carnph. 3, ^h. Continued shivering; rigor 
beginning in limbs and going over whole body, 
Aeon. 3, X^- Shuddering when in the open air, 
Ars. 3, ^h. Shivering with blueness of extremities 
and signs of collapse, Carb. v. 6, %\i. Shivering in 
the evenings without thirst, Pho. 3, %\i. Internal 

chills, Astacus fluviat. 3, X^- ^^^ ^^^^ Cold, Fever, 
Intermittent Fever. 

Sick-headache. See Headache. 

Sickness. See Vomiting and Sea-sickness. 

Side, Pain in. — Pain in left side, in young girls, vdth 
digestive troubles, anaemia or amenorrhoea, Puis. 3, 
4h. Pain in left side, in nervous women with 
uterine affections, Act r. 2)^ ^' Pain through base 
of left lung, Ac. oxal. 3, 4h. Pain in left side with 
enlargement of spleen, Ceanothus i, 4h. Pain in 
right side, sharp, worse by movement, Bry. 3, 4h. 
Sharp cutting pain below right free ribs, Berb. 3, 4h. 



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Pain in the same region, relieved by moving about, 
Diosc. 3, 4I1. 

Sighing. — op. 3, 4h. Connected with menses, Nat.phos. 
6, 4h. 

Sight— ^^^ Eyes : Sight. 

Sinking, Sensation of. — (i) Act. r. 3, 4h.; (2) Ignat. 
3, 4h. ; (3) Hydrast. 3, 4h. At 11 a. m. Sulph. 6, 8h. 

Skin, UNHEAiyTHY. — Chaps and becomes sore at the least 
provocation, Hep. s. 6, 6h. Slight injuries fester, 
Ptr. 3, 8h. When the skin is irritable and there is 
tendency to itching eruptions, Sul. 3, 8h. Sensation 
of something alive creeping under the skin, Selen. 
6, 8h. See also Fester.. 

Sleep and Dreams. — [Remedies for disorders of sleep 
should be given at intervals during the day, one dose 
being given at bedtime; this may be followed by 
another in an hour's time, if necessary.] — Sleep too 
heavy; sleepiness during the day. Op. 3, 4h Irre- 
sistible sleepiness, dreamy condition, closed eyes, 
pale face, Nux mosch. 3, 4h. Sleepiness after 
dinner, Lye. 6, 4h Sleepiness during the day, sleep- 
lessness at night, Cinnabar 3, gr. i. 4h Sleepy 
during the day and after eating; sleeplessness at 
night, sleep dreamful, restless; erotic dreams, Phos. 
3, 4h. Sleeplessness and restlessness in nervous 
persons ; with depression, accompanying uterine 
affections, Act. r. 3, 4h. Sleeplessness from thoughts 
crowding into the mind; agitation, Coff. 3, 4h. 
Sleeplessness, anxious dreams, hot, restless, toss- 
ing about; sleeplessness in the aged, Aco 3, 4h. 
Starts in affright just when falling asleep; anxious 
and frightful dreams, Bell. 3, 4h Restless, tosses 
off the clothes, cannot remain in bed, anxious dreams 



2o8 S M A 

of business; frightful dreams with palpitation, Rhus 
t 3, 4h. Sleepiness in the evening, wakeful after 
midnight, heaviness in the morning"; sleepiness 
only in the morning; sleeplessness from abuse of 
coffee. Niix v 3, 4h. Excessively frequent yawning; 
light sleep, hearing everything; restless dreamful 
sleep, Ign. 3, 4h. Sleeplessness with restlessness of 
e3'eballs; sleep too dreamful, from the least excite- 
ment, Hyo. 3, 4h. Sleeplessness from emotional 
disturbance following the slighest excitement of the 
brain in the evening, Gels. 3, 4h. Dreams of water, 
Verat. v. 3^ 4h. Cannot fall asleep for a long time 
from the blood mounting to the head; violent 
starting on falling asleep; sleep restless, tossing, 
diagreeable dreams, Sul. 3, 4h. Confused dreams, 
Phos. 3, 4h. Anxious dreams of business trans- 
acted during the day, Bry. 3, 4h. Sufferings from 
loss of sleep, Cocc, Ind. 3, 4h. Whining in sleep, 
Verat. a. 2i, ^' Weeps on being weakened; weeps in 
sleep; starting in sleep; biting tongue; anxious 
starting out of sleep; moaniug in sleep, Carh. v. 3, 
4h See also Nightmare, Screaming of Children, 
Somnambulism, Starting, Yawning. 

Small-Pox. — In general, Variol.y:) — 200, 4h. (The same 
may be given once or twice daily as proph^'lactic to 
those who are brought within the range of the in- 
fection.) Coated tongue, depression, prostration, 
back pain, nausea. Ant. t. 6, ih. When maturation 
has commenced, Merc. sol. 6, 3h. ; locally, the 
patient's body ma}^ be sponged with a solution of 
carbolic acid (i to 60). When haemorrhages occur. 
Ham. I, ^h. In small-pox which is malignant frotr 
the outset, Crotal. h. 3, yih. 

For complications and sequelae, see Throat, Eyes, 

Ears, &c. 



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Smell, Sensitiveness of. — Great sensitiveness, bad 
smells have a powerful effect, Aco. 3, 4h. Great 
sensitiveness; faintest odours, especially of tobacco, 
unbearable, Bell. 3, 4I1. Smell abnormally acute; 
cannot tolerate flowers. Graph. 6, 4h. All odours 
too strong; disgusting, Ac. carbol. 3, 4h. Everything 
smells too strong, Aur. met. 3, gr. ii. 8h. 

Ii,i,usiONS OF. — Offensive smell as of old catarrh, Puis. 
3, 4h. Of old offensive mucus; of burnt bone; of 
soap-suds; of boiled peas, Sul. 3, 4h. Putrid smell. 
Kali bichr. 3X, gr. i. 4h. Putrid smell in nose 
when blowing it, Aur. met. 3, gr. ii. 8h. Of rotten 
eggs, Bell. 3, 4h. Very offensive smell, Calc. c. 6, 
4h. Bad smell like bilious faeces; an offensive smell 
remains a long time, Diosc. 3, 4h. Of roasted 
onions, Sang. 3, 4h. 

Loss OF. — During catarrh, with loss of taste, Sang. 3, 
4h. Loss of taste and smell after catarrh, Mag. m,. 
6, 4h. Loss of smell with cough, and stoppage of 
the nose. Am,. m,ur. 3X, 4h 

Smoking". See Tobacco Habit. 

Snake-bites. See Stings. 

Sneezing. See Cold. 

Softening of the Brain. See Brain. 

Soreness of Infants. See Excoriations. 

Somnambulism.— (i) Kali hrom. ix, gtt. v. 8h.; (2) 

Artemisia vulg. 3X, 8h. 

Spasms. See Flatulence, Colic, Cramps. 

Speech. — Hesitating, Kali brom. 3X, 4h. Omits words, 
Cham. 6, 4h. Omits words and syllables, Nux v. 3, 



2IO S P E 

4h. Uses wrong words and wrong syllables, Lye. 
6, 4I1 See also Stammering. 

Spermatorrhcea. — (Weakness of sexual organs resulting 
in passive losses of seminal fluid with, urine or whilst 
at stool or on the slightest irritation; often the result 
of self -abuse; different from Emissions, luhich see.) 
Passive losses during sleep, vertigo on rising in the 
morning, Sele7iiufn^ 30, 8h. When there is consti- 
pation, Nux V. 3, 6h. With much nervous irrita- 
bility, Potass, bromid. gr. ss. 6h. Irritability and 
brain exhaustion; from irritation of mucous mem- 
brane of prostatic portion of the urethra, Staphi- 
sagria^ 3, 4h. When this is the result of gonorrhoea, 
Canth. 3, 4h. Weakness after, Chhia. 3, 4h. Great 
weakness and palpitation of the heart, Digitaline 
3x, gr. i. in the morning on rising. Flaccidity of 
the parts, great weakness of the back and spine. 
Con. 3, gtt. ii. half an hour before meals. Chilli- 
ness, constipation, Nat. m. 6, 8h. Loss of prostatic 
fluid at stool when the stool is large and difficult. 
Sit. 6 — 30, 4h. Great weakness, Calc. phos. 3, gr. ii. 
8h. [In all cases a beverage oi Acid. phos. ix, five 
drops to a tumbler of water, may be taken with the 
meals.] Kindly and judicious moral treatment is of 
paramont importance in these cases. Also the most 
careful attention to diet and regimen should be en- 
joined. No stimulating food or drink of any kind 
should be allowed. Three meals a day at intervals of 
not less than five hours, and nothing between the 
meals; avoidance of rich food, sweets, pastry, and 
starchy food should be enjoined. Patients should be 
counselled never to eat to repletion; to take exercise 
moderately, but not to over-exert themselves. A 
morning cold or tepid bath and brisk rub-down with 
a rough towel is of great advantage Too long lying 
in bed must be strictly forbidden; eight hours at the 



SPl 2ir 

outside is all that should be allowed. Hard beds are 
a necessity. Dyspepsia in connection with sperma- 
torrhoea must be treated according to symptoms. 
See Dyspepsia^ Emissions, Self-Abuse. 

Spina Bifida,— U) Bad!., 30—200, gtt. iv. once a week; 
(2) Bry, 3, 4h.; (3) Calc. phos. 3, gr. ii. 4h.. [Surgi- 
cal measures must be adopted if the tumour increases. 
In all cases the tumour must be supported and pro- 
tected from external irritation.] 

Spinal Irritation. — [The treatment of this disease 
must be largely moral and physical. The patient 
must be encouraged to ignore her sufferings as much 
as possible, to take open-air exercise, and on no 
account to let her pains get the mastery of her. 
Generous diet must also be insisted on. The fol- 
lowing medicines will greatly assist the treatment.] 
In patients with tubercular history, Bacil. 30 — 200, 
gl. iv. once a week. In general; brow headache, 
numbness of limbs, pain in the stomach, flatulence, 
constipation, Arg. 71, 6, 4h In weakly women of 
low and feeble habit of body, with weak pulse, ten- 
derness over cervical and dorsal spines, with head- 
ache, constriction across the chest, and flatulent 
eructations, Agar. 3, 4h. When there is a tendency 
to skin eruptions, sinking sensation worst about 
II A. M., Sill. 3. 8h. In chilly subjects, great sen- 
sitiveness to cold, headaches in back of head, com- 
ing forward, compelling patient to wrap up head, 
Sil. 30, 4h. In ner\^ous, impressionable subjects, 
easily worried, Ignat. 3, 4h. Aching in the back; 
restlessness and sleeplessness, accomoanied ^^-ith 
uterine irritation Act. r 3. 4h. Sensitiveness from 
last cervical to fifth dorsal vertebra, dread of having 
the part touched or approached, worse by fatigue, 
only partially relieved by repose, Tellur. 6, 4h. 



212 SPI — SPR 

Burning and aching about the upper part of the 
spine, with difficulty of swallowing and constiiction 
of the larynx, Guaco 3, 4h. With cramps and dis- 
orders of sensation, Secale 3, 4h. 

Spine, Concussion of. See Bruises. 

iNFivAMMATioN OF. See Myelitis. 

iNFi^AMMATioN OF Mfmbranks OF. See Meiiingitis, 

Spinai,, 

Irritation of. See Spinal Irritation. 

Pain in Extremity of. See Coccygodynia. 

Spitting of Blood. See Haemoptysis. 

Spleen. — Pain in, and enlargement of — (i) Ceanothus i, 
4h.; {2) Agaric. 3, 4h ; (3) Nat. mur. 6, 4h. 

Sprain. — in severe sprains, let the injured part be placed 
in water as hot as can be well borne, in which 
Arnica ^ (ten drops to the pint) has been mixed; let 
this be repeated every three or four hours, and the 
part supported in the intervals by a light bandage 
(care being taken that it is not at all tight), and 
kept warm; internally, A^m. 3, every ten minutes 
for the first three hours, and then every hour and at 
increasing intervals. When the pain has ceased 
and the swelling subsided, external applications, 
except the light bandage, may be discarded, and 
the medicine alone given every four hours. Rest 
is necessary at first; but the joint must not be 
allowed to become stiff, and after all signs of inflam- 
mation have subsided movement must be encouraged. 
If after forty-eight hours there is not very decided 
improvement, Bellis perennis must be substituted 
for Arnica, — Bellis ^ for the hot bath, and Bellis 3 
for internal administration. Rheumatic pain and 



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stiffness remaining after a sprain, especially if the 
pain is worse at night, and by rest, Rhus t. 3, 4h. 
Bruised pain in the bones, Ruta 3, 4h. 

Squint. See Eyes ; Squint. 

Stanunering. — [This must be overcome by practice and 
determination on the part of patients. The cure 
may be assisted by the following medicines: they 
must be used perseveringly.] — (i) Strani. 3, 6h. ; (2) 
Hyos. 3, 6h. When it is a manifestation of chorea, 
the treatment recommended for that disease is avail- 
able. See Chorea. 

starting. — At noise, Carh. v. 6, 4h. At noise, when 
lying awake, Op. 3, 4h. From sudden noise; Borax 
30, 8h. Starts and twitches on falling asleep. Agar. 
3, 4h. Violent starting on falling asleep, Sul. 3, 4h. 
Starting out of sleep with anxiety, short breath, 
suffocating, trembling, Samh. 3, 4h. Starting in 
fright, Stram. 3, 4h. 

Sterility. — In the Femai^k. — When due to some affec- 
tion of the uterus or its appendages, this nmst be 
remedied When not traceable to any organic defect 
— (i) Bor. 6, 8h.; (2) Con, 3, 8h.; (3) lod. 3X. 8h. 

In the MAI.E. See Impotency. 

Sternum. See Chest. 

Stiff-neck.— From a draught or chill; tearing in the 
nape, painful stiff-neck, worse on moving the neck; 
pain extending down the neck into the shoulder, Aco. 
3, ih. Head and neck retracted; rheumatic pain 
and stiffness in muscles of neck and back, sen- 
sitiveness of the spine, Act. r. 3, ih Stiff-neck; 
- neck stretched out, head bent back, Ant. t. 6, 2h. 
Painful stiff-neck, worse by touch or motion, Bry. 3, 



214 STI — STO 

ih. Paralysis; pains and stiffness, Colch. 3, ih. 
From damp and cold; pain in the nape as if after 
lying with the head in an uncomfortable position, 
Dulc. 3, ih From dry cold, the pain worse on the 
approach of stormy weather, Rhod. 3, ih. Pain and 
stiffness in the right side, Chel. i, ih. [Locally, the 
part may be ironed with a hot flat iron, a piece of 
flannel being placed over the part affected] 

Sting's. — Of Insects. — Locally apply powder blue, or, 
if not at hand, Ammonia {Sal volatile and smelling 
salts are convenient forms); internally, Ledum. 6, 
every ten minutes. In bee and wasp stings the 
application of freshly sliced onion is very efiicacious 
when Afnmonia is not at hand. Should Ledum not 
prove successful, Grindelia 3, every ten minutes. 
Tarentula bite, Lack. 6, every ten minutes. 

Of Snakes — See binder Hydrophobia. Tie a hand- 
kerchief tightly above the part bitten. If possible, 
cause the patient to perspire, either by means of 
vapour or Turkish baths, or by wrapping in blankets 
and applying hot bricks or hot bottles. Administer 
stimulants freely, ammonia and whisky being the 
best, with hot water, as much as the patient can be 
made to smallow. 

Medicinal Treatment — For fainting and collapse: (i) 
Ac. hydrocy. i, 10 m.; (2) Moschus 3, 10 m. For the 
swelling, ecchymosis, and pain of the bitten part, 
when reaction has set in. Am 3, 2h ; lotion oi Am. 
3x, two teaspoonfuls to a pint of water, to be kept 
applied to the part. 

Stomach : Acidity. See Acidity, Dyspepsia. 

Cancer of.— (i) Ars 3, 4^.; (2) Hydrast. 3, 4h.; (3) 
Condurango 3, 6h. [These medicines may be given 



STO — STR 215 

singly and persistently according to the general 
symptoms. Should the medicine that is being given 
appear to be losing its effect, one of the others should 
be substituted. For the vomiting, Kreas, 3, 4h. Con- 
stant feeling as if the stomach were full of water, 
Kali c. 6, 4h. See also Cancer. 

Catarrh. — Coldness, flatulence, cutting pains about 
the chest, vomiting of mucus, tongue clean or coated, 
Carb. V. 6, 3h. Vomiting, pain in pit of stomach 
spreading into the chest, flatulence, Ac. carbol. 3, 2h. 
Intense pain at the stomach, sharp or burning; 
vomiting of slimy matter; great prostration; cold- 
ness, Ac. oxal.2,^^ 4h. Tongue milky white; eructa- 
tions of wind and fluid tasting of food taken, Ant, 
crud. 6, 8h. Sodden-looking face, yellow slimy 
tongue, "goneness" after meals, alternate diarrhoea 
and constipation, Hydrast.^i, 3h. ^'(f^ a/^(? Dyspepsia. 

Pain in. See Gastrodynia. 

UI.CKR OF. See Gastric Ulcer. 
Stomatitis. See Mouth, Infi^ammation of. 
Stone. See Calculus. 
Strabismus. See Squint. 
Strain. See Sprain. 
Straining at Stool. See Tenesmus. 

Strangury. — Acute; also when due to Cantharides 
poisoning, Camph. ix, gtt. i. every five minutes. In 
less urgent cases, with burning and inflammatory 
symptoms, Canth 3, ;^h. With lumbago-like pain, 
Tereb. 3, ^h. In women especially. Copaiba 3, ^h. 
In purely nervous cases, Bell. 3, J4h. 



2i6 STR— SYN 

Stricture. See TTrethra. 

Strophulus. See Red Gum. 

Struma. See Scrofula. 

Stye. — At the beginning, Puis, 3, 2h. After Puls.^ Staph. 
3, 2h. Chronic cases, and for tendency, Hep. s. 6, 4h. 

Sunstroke. — (i) Glon. 3, every five minutes at first, the 
intervals being gradually increased. For the after- 
efifects it may be given every four hours. (2) Cactus 
3, in the same way. 

Suppuration. — Impending; inguinal glands, Merc. viv. 
6, 4h. Impending or inevitable; axillary glands. 
Hep. s. 6, 2h. Chronic, cold abscess, fistular abscess, 
Silic. 6, 6h. With erysipelas, Ars. 3, ih. With 
hectic and signs of blood-poisoning, Am. 3, ih.; 
locally, Ar7i. 3X, 5ii- distilled water, half a pint, as a 
lotion. As a local application in all cases of free 
suppuration, without blood infection, Calend. 4>, Jii. 
to the half-pint of boiled or distilled water. See 
also Abscess, Bubo, Glands, Pyaemia. 

Swallowing, Difficult. See under Throat : Sor^. 

Sweat. See Perspiration. Hands, Feet. 

Sweating Fever. See Miliaria. 

Swellings. See Abscess, Glands, Gumboil, Dropsy. 

Swimming in the Head. See Fainting. 

Sycosis. See under Beard. 

Sycosis {Hahnemanni). See Condylomata. 

Syncope. See Fainting. 

Synovitis. See under Joints. 



S Y P 217 

Syphilis. — Primary. — [In all syphilitic cases alcohol in 
every form should be forbidden. Smoking also 
should be prohibited. In inveterate cases a purely 
vegetable diet will often be of service ] Through- 
out all stages of syphilis occasional doses ( once in 
three, four, eight or ten days) of Luet. 30 — 200 will 
be serviceable, especially if there is night aggrava- 
tion. If the patient has already had full mercurial 
treatment without good effect, and especially if 
warty growths appear about the original sore, Ac, 
nit. 6 — 30, 4h.; locally, lotion of ^^. nit. i (3ii. — 
gviii. ) See also Chancre, Condylomata. 

Secondary. — Sore throat and mouth, Merc. cor. 3, gtt. 
iii 6h.\loca[ly, P/iytol. <J> (3i. — gviii.), for wash, thrice 
daily. For the eruption, it is often useful to ad- 
minister mercurial vapour baths. [A cradle being 
placed over the patient in bed, the bed-clothes are 
accurately fitted round the patient's neck, a few 
grains of calomel are placed in a vaporizer over a 
spirit-lamp, and the fumes conducted by a funnel 
under the cradle. A bath may be given every third 
day; three will usually be sufficient —sometimes a 
single one.] Where the bath is not available, Merc, 
i. fl. 5, 6h. When the sore throat and the rash are 
out together, the Phytol. lotion recommended for the 
former may be used whilst Merc. i. fl. is being given 
internally, or the bath employed. When mercury 
has been already fully given. Kali iod gr iii. — 30, 
6h [This should be continued for two or three 
months, when the mercurials may again be resumed 
if indicated. ] If the symptoms are condylomatous, 
instead of the Kali iod. the treatment recommended 
for Condylomata should take the place of mer- 
curials. Pains in the bones and nodes, ulceration of 
mouth and throat, Stillijig. syl. ix, 4h. [Medicines 
for special developmerits of the disease may be given 
15 



2i8 TAB 

as indicated inter currently with the remedy which is 
being given for the general syphilitic poisoning.] 
Nightly local pains, Mez. 3, 2h. Nodes on the bones 
of the cranium, Kali bich. 3X, gr. iii. 8h. Nodes 
on the face, Phyt. ix, gtt. ii. 4h. 

IvATe:r Skcondaries. — Vegetations and mucous 
patches, Cinnabar -^-k^ ^r. ii. — 30, 6h.; locally, Thuja 
^, as a paint. Syphilitic psoriasis, foul and indolent 
ulcerations, Graph. 6, 6h.; locally (for the ulcera- 
tions), lotion of Ac. nit. i, *^\\. — Jviii. Psoriasis and 
ulceration of the tongue, Kali bich. 3X, gr. iii. 6h ; 
locally to be painted with a solution of Kali bich.^ 
one grain to three ounces. Ulcerations in the rectum; 
constipation, Ac. nit. 6, 6h. See also Condylomata. 

Tertiary. — Syphilitic tumors of internal organs, 
Kali i. gr. v. — 30, 8h. Ulceration of bone. Kali i. 
gr V — 30, 8h. Rupia, see Rupia. Cachexia, depres- 
sion; pains or ulceration of bones; enlargement of 
testicles, Aur. met. 30, 8h. Tertiary affections of 
tongue and throat, Ac. fluor. 3, gtt. ii. 6h Syphi- 
litic phthisis, Ars. i. 3X, gr. ii. 8h , after food. 
Syphilitic ulceration of the rectum, Ac. nit. 6, 4h. 

CoNGKNiTAi,. — During pregnancy and nursing, the 
mother should take Merc. sol. 6, night and morning. 
If in spite of this the child manifests signs of 
syphilitic marasmus, it should have Merc. s. 6, night 
and morning. 

Tabes Dorsalis. See Locomotor Ataxy. 

Tabes Mesenterica. — Premonitory diarrhoea, Merc. cor. 
6, 2h. Great wasting, lod. 3X, 3h. In scrofulous 
children of soft fibre, Calc. c. 6, 4h. Obstinate con- 
stipation, Plumb, acet. 3, gr ii 8h. Large hard ab- 
domen with excessive emaciation and loss of appetite 
or sickness, Abrot. 30, 4h. 



TAP — TAS 219 

Tape-worm. See Worms. 

Taste. — Acute — Increased taste of all food, Camph. 
3, 4tli. 

Dkpraved — Food tastes bitter — (i) Nat. m. 6, 4h.; 
(2) Camph 3, 4h.; (3) Chin. 3, 4I1.; (4) Puis. 3, 4I1. 
Bread tastes sweet, Mere. sol. 6, 4h. Food and drink 
have a sour taste; milk tastes disgusting as if 
spoiled, Ntix v. 3, 4h. Everything tastes salt, Bell. 
3, 4h. Food tastes strangely, Hydrast. 3, 4h. Taste 
of food remains long after eating — ( i)Nat. in. 6, 4h.; 
(2) Ae. nit. 6, 4h 

Diminished and Lost. — Taste blunted, Cale. c. 6, 4h. 
Food seems tasteless; milky-coated tongue, Ant. t, 
6, 4h Diminished taste, moist, coated tongue, Puis. 
3, 4h. Taste flat and insipid, sore aphthous mouth, 
Bor. 3, 4h. Taste lost, with loss of smell, after a 
cold, Mag. ni. 6, 4h. Complete loss of taste — (i) 
Nat. m. 6, 4h.; (2) Mag. c 6, 4h. ; (3) Sul. 3, 4h. 
lyoss of taste, with tongue thickly coated white. Ant. 
c. 6, 4h 

Ii^ivUSioNS. —Tastes in the Mouth.— Bad taste in 
the mouth in the morning; food and drink taste 
sour; bad odour from the mouth; sour, bitter taste 
Nux V. 3, 4h. Bad taste after sleeping. Rheum. 3, 4h. 
Bad taste in the morning; food tastes strangely; 
peppery; acid peppery taste, Hydr. 3, 4h Bitter 
taste in the mouth, Chi. 3, 4h. Bitter taste, but 
natural whilst eating and drinking; sweetish taste 
of blood, Chel. 3, 4h. Taste of blood. Alumina 3, 4h. 
Taste of blood whilst coughing, Ac. nit. 6, 4h. 
Bitter; slimy; metallic, Merc. cor. 6, 4h Salty; 
sweet; bread tastes sweet; taste of bad eggs, Merc, 
sol. 6. 4h. Coppery, metallic, ^sc h. 3, 4h. Bitter; 
pasty; biHous; metallic; like vinegar; taste of blood, 



220 TE A — T E E 

Sul. 3, 4h. Offensive; sour, Calc. c. 6, 4h. Sour; 
sour dry taste; sour taste to all food, Lye. 6, 4h. 
Slimy; disgusting; bilious, Puis. 3, 4h. Flat taste, 
Borax 3, 4h. Clayey taste, Arg. n. 6, 4I1. Putrid 
taste; putrid smell from mouth — (i) Am 3, 4h.; (2) 
^/^r. w//r. 3x 4I1. 

Tea. — Effects OF. — (i) Fer 6, 4h.; (2) Chin 3,411. 

Teeth. — Caries. — To prevent caries, live on simple food; 
too rich, too sweet, or too exclusively animal a diet, 
each tends to produce such a condition of the diges- 
tion and secretions of the mouth as favours the de- 
struction of the teeth. Vegetarians say that their 
teeth are easily kept clean. The next most impor- 
tant point is to clean the teeth thoroughly and regu- 
larly. The formation of tartar on the teeth is by no 
means preservative of them, as is vulgarly imagined; 
it tends simply to destroy the gum and rob the teeth 
of support. When it has formed it should be taken 
off by a dentist, if necessary, by the process of 
scaling. It should never be allowed to re-form. The 
best dentifrices are the simplest; those, for instance, 
composed of powdered Castile soap, with a little 
powder of harder grain for polishing the enamel. 
Such a tooth-powder is Dr. C. R. Coffin's American 
Dentifrice, prepared by Darling, of Manchester. The 
best brush is one neither very soft nor very hard- 
The first teeth of children shou'd be most scrupu- 
lously cared for If they are allow^ed to decay and 
come out, the jaws fail to expand properly, and the 
seeds are laid of future trouble wdth the second set. 
Besides, the first set give evidence of those depraved 
conditions of constitution which bv proper treatment 
may be in large measure or wholly counteracted 
before the second set appear. For all reasons, then, 
the temporal^ teetli demarrl the careful attention of 



TEE 221 

both parents and physicians. It is quite as neces- 
sary that carious temporary teeth should be stopped, 
whenever possible,'as it is that the permanent should. 
The following medicinal treatment will be found ef- 
fective w^hen combined with proper dieting and 
proper cleansing: — 

In Chii^dren. — If the teeth are pegged, Merc. viv. 
6, 8h. ; this should be given persistently for three 
months at a time, omitting every fourth month, 
and then resuming. In rickety children, if thin, 
Silic. 6, 8h. ; in fat, scrofulous children, Calc. c. 6, 
8h. If the teeth turn black and decay, Kreas. 6, 8h. 
Teeth with pits or holes in them, from defective 
enamel, Bacil. loo, a few globules once in ten days. 
[In all cases cod-liver oil may be given with advan- 
tage. If possible, residence in the country should be 
advised, with abundance of milk to take, and milk 
foods {see ujider Diet, Infants; also Dentition) and 
bread and butter. A chalk country is best.] For 

toothache, see Toothache. 

. In ADUI.TS. — Where the teeth rapidly become black, 
and, w^hen decay has commenced, rapidly break 
down, sensitiveness of the teeth to the least touch, 
aching after eating or drinking. Staph. 3, 8h. Decay, 
loosening; turning black; bleeding gums, Merc. v. 6, 
8h. Rapid decay and falling out; sordes; teeth sore; 
sore, bleeding gums, Plant. 3, 4h. Teeth become 
discolored, grey, hollow; bleeding of gums, dis- 
charges from teeth sockets; necrosis of jaw, Phos. 
3, 4h. Rapid decay, blunt, elongated feeling in the 
teeth, Mez. 3, 4h. 

Falling ox^t.—Merc. v. 6, 4h. With suppuration of 
the gums, Phos. 3, 4h. See also Gums, Toothache, 
Nenralgia. 



222 TEN — TES 

Tenesmus {Straining at Stoot). — Incessant tenesmus 
most distressing, nothing but mucus and blood pass, 
Merc. c. 3, }^h. Burning in the rectum, much urg- 
ing to stool, and with it passage of urine; involuntary 
stool; feeling of unsafeness, A toe 3, 2h. Urging 
without result or with passage of scanty, hard motion, 
Bell. 3, 2h. Much urging and difficult expulsion of 
stool, which is yet not hard, Hep, s. 6, 4he Great 
urgency, no stool, rectum protrudes, Ign. 3, 2h. 
Frequent, ineffectual urging, especially if there is 
vesical urging at the same time, iVu,r v. 3, 2h. Urg- 
ing and easy protrusion of rectum, Pod. 6, 2h. Pres- 
sive urging, only mucus passes, or else hard motion 
like clay-stones, with great difficulty, Sil, 6, 4h. 
Straining before and after stool; constant bearing 
down towards anus; stool loose, slimy, purulent, 
bloody, or constipated, Sul. 3, 2h. 

Testicles. — Infi^ammation and Eni,argeme:nt of. — 
Acute orchitis, Puts. 3, ih. If there is much fever 
and restlessness, Aeon. 3, ih. When there is great 
sensitiveness of the nervous S3^stem and intolerance 
of pain. Bell. 3, ih. [Ivocally, compresses of ^7(2;;/^- 
nielis ^ (3^- — S^'^^^-) '^^ ^^ kept applied.] If theie is 
not decided relief in thirty-six hours, substitute 
Ham. I for Puts., and give in the same way. Chronic 
inflammation, with aching and swelling of testicles 
and cord, Spong. 3, 2h. Chronic inflammation fol- 
lowing mismanaged gonorrhoea, Ctemat. 3, 2h. 
Chronic enlargement, with pain in cord and testicles, 
Aur. met. 30, 4h. Syphilitic enlargement, Merc, 
bin. 3x, gr. i. 4h. 

Neuralgia.— ^wr. met. 30, 4h. With nocturnal emis- 
sions, depression, irritability, hypochondriasis, Ham. 
3, 2h. Deficient virility from previous engorgement; 
feeble erethism, Con. 3, 4li- 



TET — Till 223 

Tetanus. — idiopathic, arising from exposure to cold, 
Aeon. 3, ih. Following injury, Strychnia gj-n, /^h. 
— ih. If this fails to arrest the disease, Ac. hydrocy. 
(Scheele's), gtt. i. ^h. — ih. Locally, the wound to 
be dressed with Calendula lotion (5iv. — S^iii- )• 

Tetany.— (i) Aco. 3, ih.; (2) Thyr. gr. ii.— 30 4h. 

Tetter.— Branny, see Pityriasis. Dry, see Psoriasis. 
Moist, see Herpes. 

Thecal Abscess. See Whitlow. 

Thirst. — xIbsence: of.— Complete, Ant. t. 6, 4h. Ab- 
sence of thirst during heat ; no thirst when eating, 
Chi. 3, 4h. No thirst during the day, but returning 
in the evening; loss of appetite, Cyc. 3, 4h. 

Incrkaskd — During fever, Aco. 3, 2h. Unquenchable 
thirst; drinks much, but little at a time; drinking 
does not refresh; prefers it very cold and often vom- 
its it as soon as swallowed; dry mouth, Ars. 3, 2h. 
Excessive thirst for cold water, with dryness of 
mouth and throat and difficulty of swallowing^ Bell. 
3, 2h. Great thirst with burning in throat and 
stomach, Canth. 3, 2h. Unquenchable burning 
thirst, Crot. h. 3, 2h. Unquenchable burning thirst, 
great desire for cold water in large quantities, Merc. 
c. 6, 4h. Great thirst; must drink large quantities; 
during internal fever, Bry. 3, 2h. Violent thirst, but 
drink immediately vomited, Dulc. 3, 2h. Violent 
thirst; unallayed by water; desire for sour drinks; 
dry throat, Stratn. 3, 2h. Great thirst with hunger; 
much thirst for cold drinks; excessive thirst with 
perspiration, Verat 3, 2h. Great thirst with loss of 
appetite, Sul. 3, 2h. Thirst for cold water, followed 
in some hours by chill, Eup. perf. 3, 2h. Unquench- 
able thirst during chill, Nat. m. 6, 2h. 



224 T H R 

Thread-worms. See Worms. 

Throat. See also Aphthae, ftuinsy, Scarlatina, Syph- 
ilis, Tonsils, Trachea, Uvula. 

Mucus IN. — Increased secretion of mucus and hawk- 
ing; dropping from posterior nares; rawness and 
soreness; Hydrast. 3, 4h. Dropping of mucus down 
back of throat; in psoric, chilly subjects, Psor. 30, 
4h. Constant hawking and sensation as of a lump in 
the throat; thick mucus, Alumina 6, 4h. Thick, 
tenacious mucous in the throat, obliging to hawk; in 
the morning, Arg. n. 6, 4h. Tough mucus in the 
throat, as though a lump which cannot be swallowed; 
Carb. V. 6, 4h. Constant hawking and clearing of the 
throat; mucus grey and salty; or sour, acrid, or 
rancid, Pho. 3, 4h. Hawking of blood; accumula- 
tion of mucus on waking from sleep, Sul. 3, 4h. 
Spitting of frothy saliva streaked with blood, Ca?ith. 
3, 4h. Hawkingof bloody mucus; yellow, purulent; 
granular. Lye. 6, 4h. Violent hawking up of thick 
mucus, w^hich continually collects again, Nat. c. 6, 
4h. Haw^king of mucus with dryness in the throat, 
after a nap in the daytime, Lack. 6, 4h. 

Sore, Acute {Acute Inflammation or Catarrh of the 
Mucous Membrane of the Throat), Simple, from 
cold, accompanied with fever, Aco. 3, ih. Dryness 
and burning, bright red sw^elling, feeling of constric- 
tion, difficulty in swallowing, face flushed and hot; 
erysipelatous sore throat, Bell. 3, ih. Bluish, dark 
livid, Gymnoclad. canad. 3, ih. Subacute, pale, or 
bluish, red sw-elling, Merc. v. 6, 2h. Dark red, 
larynx involved, Naja 6, ih. Much oedema of 
mucous membrane; appearance as if stung with 
a bee; swallowing painful or difficult; inability 
to swallow a single drop. Apis 3X, ih. Rawness; 
difficulty in swallowing, lod. 3X, 2h. Constant 



T H R 225 

secretion of mucous in the throat, difficult to dis- 
charge and causing retching; mucus descends from 
the back of the nose to the throat; sore throat 
with difficulty in swallowing and frequent empty 
swallowings; sore throat with pain on swallowing 
saliva, Merc. t. fl. 6, 2h. Tenacious mucus in 
throat; sensation as of a hair in the throat, Kali 
bich. 3x, 2h. Dark red, swollen mucous membrane, 
great soreness and difficulty of swallowing; pustular 
spots (herpes of the pharynx), swelling and tender- 
ness of glands externally at the angle of the jaw, 
Phytolacca^ 3, ih. Locally, Phyt. <l> (gtt xx. to the 
tumbler of water), to be used every two hours as a 
gargle. Gangrenous or phagedenic sore throat, Me^x. 
cy. 6, ih. ; locally, Phytolacca gargle every hour. 
[Medicines recommended below under Chronic 
Sore Throat are equally applicable to ACUTE, if 
the particular indications correspond] 

Sore, Chronic ( Chronic Inflammation or Catarrh of 
the Mucous Membrane of the Throat, or Relaxed 
Throat; with Clergyman' s Sore Throat or Follicular 
or Granular Sore Throat). Rawness, soreness, and 
swelling; dropping of mucus from back of nose, 
Bustachian tubes involved; gianular sore throat, 
Hydrast. 3, 4h. Chronic relaxed condition of throat; 
general debility; especially if tonsils are chronically 
enlarged, Calc. phos. 3, gr. ii. 4I1. Burning pain; 
dark red swelling; ulceration; difficult and painful 
swallowing, even of fluids; spasm of the glottis on 
attempting to swallow; swelling of glands, Merc, 
cor. 3, 4h. Mucous membrane dry, glazed, and red, 
with cough. Alumina 6, 4h Chronic catarrh; 
common chronic ulcer; syphilitic sore throat; 
tenacious mucus; sensation as of a hair in the 
throat. Kali bichr. 3X, gr. ii. 4h. Dryness, burning, 
sensation of constriction, difficult swallowing, burn- 



226 THR — TIN 

ing thirist, Ars. 3, 4h. Scraping sensation, with 
deep, hoarse voice, Brom. 3X, 4h. Smarting pain 
in the throat when swallowing, though most on 
empty swallowing, Baryta curb. 6, /\h. Pain in 
upper parts of fauces between the acts of degluti- 
tion, as if the parts were sore and being spasmodi- 
cally drawn together as in water-brash; burning 
with constriction; spasmodic contraction of throat; 
difficult swallowing. Caps. 3, 4h. Nervous sore 
throat; sore pain on swallowing; feeling of 
"lump" in the throat, Ig7i. 3, 2h. Nerv^ous sore 
throat, when the aching is out of proportion to 
the inflammation; chronic irritation of the throat, 
always uneasy, choking, hawking, coughing; dry 
spot or general dryness on waking; sensation of a 
"lump," or of two lumps, closing in the throat, on 
empty swallowing; pain or difficulty on empty 
swallowing, not on swallowing food. Lack. 6, ih. 
Clergymen's sore throat from over-exertion of the 
voice, Am. 3, 4h. Granular sore throat, especially 
in persons with tendency to piles, mucous membrane 
dark red, ^sc. h. i, 4h. Chronic granular sore 
throat, Phyt. ix — 3, 4h. [Medicines recommended 
above under AcuTK SoRE Throat, are equally 
applicable to Chronic, if the particular indications 
correspond.] 

UivCKRS. — Simple, Kali bichr, 3X, gr. ii. 4h.; locally, 
Phyt. ^ (gtt. XX to the tumbler of water), for a gargle 
three times a day. Syphilitic, see Syphilis. 

Throat-deafness.— (i) Hydrast. 3, 2h.; (2) Merc. sol. 
6, 4h. See Ear, Deafness. 

Thrush. See Aphthae. 

Tic Douloureux, See Neuralgia, Faciai,. 

Tinea. See Favus, Ringworm. 



T I N — T O N 227 

Tinnitus Anrium. See Noises in the Head. 
Tobacco Habit, or Nicotism— [All those who suffer 

from the effects of tobacco, whether in the heart, the 
nerves, the stomach, or the throat, should abstain 
from its use. Homoeopathic medicines are of great 
assistance to those who wish to break themselves of 
the habit.] In lea\dng off tobacco, Nicx v. 3 should 
be taken every four hours; and when the craving 
comes on, a Camphor pilule should be chewed. 
Tobacco blindness (i) Phos. 3, 2h. ; (2) Plumb acet. 
3, gr. ii. 4h. For the dyspepsia, Nux v. 3, 2h. For 
the heart distress, Spig. 3, 2h. Granular sore throat, 
Calc. phos. 3, gr. ii. 2h. To destroy the desire for 
tobacco (i) Chi. 3, 4h.; (2) Ars. 3, 4h. 

Toe-nails. — affections of. See Nails. 

Tongue. — Cancer. — Kali cyan, i — 3, 8h. ; {2) stony 
hard nodules, Aur. ruet. 3X, gr. ii. 8h. See also 
Cancer. 

Cracks. — Cracked, dry, parched, Bell. 3, 2h. Peeling 
and cracking. Ran. s. 3, 2h. Cracked, painful, bleed- 
ing, Arum t. 12, 2h. (if of lower potency to be 
freshly prepared). Cracked down the centre, Rhus 
V. 3, 2h. 

Enlargement AND Infi^ammation of. — Great swell- 
ing and protrusion, Merc. viv. 6, }^h. If there is 
much fever, Acq. 3, }^h. — 4h. , to be followed by Merc. 
V.6, }ih. — ih. If the inflammation arises from a burn 
or scald, Canth. 3, yi\i. Acute oedema. Apis 3X, ]/^\i. 
Tongue swollen, sore; excoriated, desquamated, Ac. 
oxal. 6, 4h. [As soon as the swelling is checked th^ 
intervals between the doses may be increased.] Sub- 
acute inflammation of the mucous membrane, thick 
yellow mucous coat; sweet taste in mouth, Merc. viv. 
6, 2h. 



228 TON 

Para];ysis of. — Canst. 6, 2h. Swollen and stiff, 
seems paralysed; cannot be protruded, Dulc. 3, 2h. 
Feels very thick, can hardly speak, Gels. 3, 2h. 

Surface and Sensations. — Numb; burning; red, 
dry; white furred, Aco. 3, 2h. Dry, cracked, parched; 
papillae deep red, swollen, Bell. 3, 2h. Red with 
silvery coat; clean, red, furred, with red streak 
down the middle and red tip; dry; dry and browm 
coated; burning, as if covered with burning vesicles 
Ars. 3, 2h. Red wnth blackish coat; much coated, 
moist, edges red; white coat in front, yellow behind; 
dry, hot, Merc. c. 6, 2h. Swollen and red; prominent 
papillae on white ground; burning extending to 
stomach, Mez. 3, 2h. Pippy, straw^berry-like torgue, 
Fragar. vesc.^ — 3, 4h. Red in streaks; red, dry in 
middle; thinly coated white with reddened papillae 
and red edges; thick w^hite or bilious fur; brown, 
dry, A7it. t. 6, 2h. Swollen; thick white coat; 
patched, red and white spots; aphthous; thick white 
dry coat in patches; tongue and fauces whitened, 
Ac. oxal. 6, 6h. White patches, Arg. n. 6, 6h. 
Tongue thick, darkened, and, together with mouth 
and fauces, covered wdth greyish white coat; bluish; 
blistered and burning, Acid. miir. i, 2h. Bluish- 
w^hite coat, Gymnocl. c 3, 2h Thick, white, milky 
coat; dirty tongue in children. Ant. c. 6, 2h. White 
coat; thick white coat, Bry. 3, 2h. White; yellow, 
^sc. h. 3, 2h. Yellow coat; broad yellow stripe; 
large, indented, feels scalded, Hydrast. 3, 2h. Swol- 
len, thickly coated w4iite, indented, Merc sol. 6, 2h. 
Black, wath red edges, pale, tremulous, Merc. v. 6, 
2h. Swollen, thick, white-coated, yellowish- w^hite ; 
thick fur; baked appearance in the middle, Bapt. 3, 
2h. Dry in the morning; covered wdth tenacious 
mucus as if with a membrane; tongue broad, Puis. 3, 
2h. White, with prominent papillae; white coat; 



TON 229 

yellow; blisters; burning, Lye 6, 2h. White; clean 
at front part, yellow behind, Nux v. 3, 2h. Thick, 
dirty yellow fur, Sul. 3, 2h. Feels very thick, can 
hardly speak; red, w^hite, or yellow, Gels. 3, 2h. Red 
at apex, Rhus t. 3, 2h. White in middle, back and 
edges red; red tip; cracks in middle, distress at 
root, Rhus V. 3, 2h. White at both sides, red in the 
middle, Canst, 6, 2h. Skin of tongue peeling off, 
Tarax $ — 3, 2h. Skin peeling, cracking, Ra7i. s. 
3, 2h. Blisters with burning; white or yellow coat, 
Nat. nt. 6, 2h. Blisters; burning at tip, and rawness 
of mouth, Ca7'b. a. 6, 2h. Cracked, painful, bleed- 
ing, root of tongue and palate feel raw. Arum. t. 12, 
2h. (if of lower potency, to be freshly prepared). 
Sore, blistered, bad breath, Ae. nit. 6, 2h. 

Syphii^is. — Ae. fluor. 3, 4h. See also imder SypMlis. 

ULCERATION. — Recurring ulcers; fungous, swelling; 
induration, "psoriasis of the tongue," ^<r. niur. ix 
or 30, 4h. Ulcers under the tongue, Lye. 6, 4h Sub- 
lingual ulcer in whooping cough, Ae. nit. 6, 2h. 
Syphilitic ulcers, see under Syphilis. 

Tonics. — There are no medicines which act as '' tonics" 
to persons in good health; and the very common 
habit of taking a '' tonic " — no matter what — w^hen- 
ever a pimple appears on the face is not merely ridic- 
ulous, it is pernicious. Medicines only have a 
strengthening action when there is lack of strength 
in the patient; and the same strengthening medicine 
is not suitable for every kind of debiHty The best 
** tonic " in any case is that medicine which has pro- 
duced in the healthy a similar kind of weakness to 
that experienced by the patient. For special indica- 
tions, see Debility. 

Tonsils —Acute Inflammation of. See Quinsy. 



230 TOO 

Chronic Eni^argemknt of. — (i) Baryt. c. 6, 6h.; 

(2) Calc. phos. 3, gr. ii. 6h. 

Toothache. — Begin in most cases, if the indications for 
another drug are not clear, with Plantago 3, every 
ten minutes. Plantago ^ may also be rubbed on the 
gum, or applied externally on the face over the pain- 
ful nerve; or inserted, on cotton wool, into the ear of 
the side affected. [If this fails to relieve or cure within 
a few hours, the following should be given as indi- 
cated.] Where there is inflammation at the root of 
a decayed tooth, Merc, sol, 6, ih. When there is 
much swelling as well as inflammation, Apis 3X, ih., 
and afterwards 3ferc. sol. 6, ih. When the teeth are 
carious, but no signs of inflammation or gumboil are 
present, Kreas. 3, ih. When the teeth are sound, 
Spigel. 3, ih. Toothache when eating. Kali card. 
6, 4h. Toothache from cold air or cold drink; teeth 
cannot endure air or any coldness; toothache only 
when eating, Calc. c. 6, 4h. Pain when eating; from 
drinking warm things; from motion; better when 
lying down; or when lying on painful side; arising 
from cold; teeth feel too long; molars on right side 
chiefly affected, Bry. 3, 4h. Toothache on taking 
anything warm into the mouth, relieved by cold 
water, better in the open air and from uncovering, 
aggravated by warmth, Puis. 3, ih. Toothache made 
worse by warm food or drink; when warm in bed at 
night; pain intolerable, Chain 6, ih. {^Chloro- 
form on cotton-wool inserted into a hollow tooth, or 
into the ear on the same side, will give temporary 
relief. Kreasote inserted into a hollow tooth in the 
same way as chloroform, and Friar'' s balsam, or 
Spirit of Camphor rubbed on the gum, are useful 
local measures. ] Toothache of p: egnancy — ( i ) Calc, 
c, 6, 2h.; (2) Sep. 6, 2h. When the pain is intoler- 



T O O — T R A 231 

able during repose, 3Tag. c. 6, 2h. See also Neu- 
ralgfia. 

Tooth-rash. See Red Gum. 

Torticollis. See Stiff-neck. 

Trachea. — Dryness in trachea; crawling in upper parts, 
as if something were there provoking cough; hoarse- 
ness; worse in damp, cold weather, in the evening, 
and from speaking, Carb. v. 6, 2h. Adherent mucus 
high up in trachea, causing cough; upper part feels 
constricted; tickling and itching in trachea, in the 
middle of sternum, causing cough, worse on expira- 
tion, Nux V. 3, 2h. Tickling irritation in trachea, as 
if from feather-down; cough provoked by this or by 
eating; sensation as if something loose in trachea; 
difficult loosening of phlegm, especially at episternal 
notch; wheezing in trachea; sensation as if a lump 
of phlegm moving up and down trachea, Calc. c. 
6, 2h Dryness and burning in larynx and trachea; 
irritation at bifurcation of trachea, formation of 
mucus there which is difficult to expel, Ars. 3, 2h. 
Rawness of larvmx and trachea with frequent hack- 
ing cough and hawking; irritability of lower part of 
trachea w4th suffocative pressing; coughing up of 
much purulent phlegm, constant tickling-scratching 
sensation at bifucation of trachea, Pho. 3, 2h. In 
the morning, tough mucus in lower part of trachea, 
which cannot be dislodged by hawking or coughing; 
after hawking and coughing trachea is raw and sore; 
finally the mucus loosens itself and he must hawk 
constantly, Cafin. sat. 3, 2h. Irritation to cough in 
trachea, as from mucus- sore sensation low down in 
trachea after every cough; expectoration of yellow 
mucus from trachea, of foul taste or sweet, Stan. 6, 
4h. Constant irritation in trachea; deep down; 
cough dry and spasmodic; or with copious mucus; 



232 T R A — T R E 

worse at night, Sul. 3, 2h. Rawness and soreness in 
the morning after rising, with dry cough, Curb, a. 6, 
2h. Pain in trachea, worse by smoking or talking; 
soreness after coughing; sensation of vapour in tra- 
chea; worse on going into warm out of cOld air, Bry. 
3, 2h. CrawHng and tickling in larynx and trachea 
after lying down in the evening; tickling in trachea 
causing violent sneezing, Caps, 3, 2h. Pain in larynx 
and trachea extending to middle of sternum as if 
raw and sore, cough very violent, Osmium, 3, 2h. 
Expectoration of mucus from trachea immediately 
after eating, Sil. 6, 2h. Tickling in trachea; caijs- 
ing cough; contractive feeling as if the pit of the 
throat pressed on the trachea; formation of mem- 
brane intiachea; worse on inspiration, Bro. 2) — 30, 
2h. (must be freshly prepared if given in the lower 
strength). Feeling as if something swollen in throat, 
but that cannot be swallowed; stitch through 
trachea; pain from pit of throat to root of tongue; 
trachea tender to touch; tickling at throat-pit worse 
after sleep and by touch, Lack. 6, 2h. Sensation in 
trachea as if swelled up; scraping, irritation, Apis 
3x, 2h. Raw scraped sensation all down centre of 
chest and throat; paroxysmal cough provoked by 
tickling in trachea, and induced by pressure upon it; 
Rum., c. 6, 2h. Irritation of nose, larynx, and trachea, 
cough with difficult expectoration of tough white 
stringy mucus, Kali bichr. 3X, gtt. i. 2h. See also 
Cold, Cough, Larynx, BroncMtis. 

Traumatic Fever (including Cathktkrism). — when 
simple continued, Aco. 3, ih. When typhoid in 
character, A^^s. 3, 2x When pyaemic — (i) Lack. 6, 
2h.; (2) Am. 3, 2h. When hectic, Chi. 3, 2h. See' 

also Fever, Hectic, Pyaemia. 

Tremors. — Nervous from emotional disturbance, Ign. 3, 



T R I — T U M 233 

ih. From fright, Strani, 3, ih. Of drunkards; jac- 
titation; internal trembling; trembling of head and 
paralytic trembling of hands on every motion, Ant. 
t, 6, 2h. Tremors; never master of himself; tremors 
of tongue; stammering; unable to lift, write or eat; 
nervousness; tremors commencing in the fingers, 
Merc. s. 6, 4h. Weakness and trembling of the 
whole body; complete muscular relaxation, Gels. 3, 
2h. Restlessness; inability to walk from trembling 
of the limbs; nervousness, Act. r. 3, 2h Trembling 
of the limbs with blueness and coldness, Agar. 3, 2h: 
Tumors and weakness or faintness, Thyr. 3X, gr. ii — 

Trismus i Lock-jaw). —See Tetanus. 

Tuberculosis— Acute.— ^^^7. 30—200, gl, iv., a single 
dose once a week. Other remedies may be given in 
the interval if required. Heat and perspiration of 
head, cold clammy hands and feet, Calc. c. 30, ih 
Flushed face, delirium, boring head into pillow, 
Bell. 3, ih. 

Threatened. See Consumption, Threatened. See 
also Consumption, Meningitis, Mesenteric Dis- 
ease, Peritonitis. 

Tumours. — Fatty, Calc. c. 30, once or twice a day. Fatty 
tumours, especially about the neck, Baiyt. c. 6, 
4h. General increase of fat, Calc. ars. 30, 6h. 
Encysted, Calc. c. 30, 6h. Vascular, of urethra, 
Eucalypt. 3X, 4h. ; locally, to be painted thrice 
daily with Eucalypt. ^. 

Cancer. See Cancer. 

Fibroid. See Fibroma. 

Nodes. See Nodes. 
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234 T Y M — U I. C 

Ovarian. See Ovaries, 

Poi^YPUs. See Polypus. 

Sebaceous. See Wens. 

VascuivAr. See Naevus 

Warts and Condylomata. See Warts, Condy- 
lomata. 

Tympanites.— Hysterical, Asaf. 3, ih. In fevers and 
inflammations, Tereb. 3, ih., locally, flannels wrung 
out of hot water, and a few drops of turpentine 
sprinkled on, to be applied to the abdomen every 
hour. See Enteric Fever, Peritonitis. 

Typhoid Fever 5<?<? Enteric Fever 

Typhus Fever. — Uncomplicated, Rhus t 3, ih. Great 
restlessness, twitching, and tremor, Agar. 3, ih. 
Great vital depression, Ars. 3, ih. Pneumonia, 
Phos. 3, ih. Inflammation of salivary glands, (i) 
Chin, sulph, 3x, gr. ii, 2h. ; (2) Merc. soL 6, 2h. 
Bubo, Merc. viv. 6, 2h. 

Ulceration and Ulcers. — [in all cases the constitutional 
state must be attended to, and the hygienic sur- 
roundings of the patient. Sometimes this alone 
will suffice to cure.] 

Preventive Treatment. — When the skin is red and 
erysipelatous-looking, and feels hard. Bell. 3, 2h. 
Skin about the aukle dark and painful, Lach. 6, 2h. 
Varicose patches, Ham. 3, 2h. Nodular swellings in 
syphilitic subjects, Kali iod. gr. ii. 4h. [In all cases 
the limb must be supported by suitable bandages, 
and rest enjoined.] 

UiyCERS. — Simple ulceration, Sil 6, 4h. ; locally, SiL 6, 
3ii — Jvi., to be kept applied as a lotion. In chronie 



U L C 235 

cases, begin with Sid. 3, 4I1.; locally, Calend. 4>, 
Jii^ — gvi. for a lotion (or, 5ii' — Ji- of iard for an 
ointment). Afterwards— (i) Hydrast. 1, 3I1. ; locally, 
Hydrast. <I>, oii.— Jvi. for a lotion; or, 5ii.— gi, of 
lard for ointment. (2) Kali bichr. 3X, gr. i. 411. ; 
locally, Kali bichr. gr. i.— Jviii. for lotion. (3) Ac. 
nit. 3I1.; locally, Ac. nit. ix. gii— viii. for lotion. 
Chronic ulceration on the left side, Ast. rub. 6, 
4h.; locally, Cale7id. ^ "^ri. — %y\. Irritable ulcer, 
Lack. 6, 2h.; locally, Calend. ^ 3ii- — S^i. for lotion. 
Varicose ulcer — (i) Ham. 3, 3h.; locally, Havi. 4), 
gtt XX. — gvi. for lotion; or Ham. <J>, gtt x. — gi. of 
lard for ointment. (2) Phytolacca 3, 4h. ; locally, 
Hamamelis ointment. Painful burning ulcers, Ars. 
3, 4h,; locally, Ars. 3, 3ii — S^i- for lotion. Punched- 
out ulcers, ulcers that bleed readily, especially at 
catamenial periods; ulcers surrounded by smaller 
ulcers, Pho. 3, 3h.; locally, Calendula ointment or 
lotion. Ulcers with an areola, sensitive and easily 
bleeding, painful at night; pus has tendency to 
form an adherent scab, under which more pus 
collects, Mez. 3, 3h. ; locally, Mez. $, *^\\. — Jvi. for 
lotion; or 3^^- — S^- ^^ ^^^^ ^^r ointment. Weep- 
ing ulcers, Merc, sol 6, 4h. ; locally, Calend. 
Painful and foetid ulcers, PcEon. 3, 3h. ; locally, 
PcBon. ^, 3ii- — S^'i- ^^r lotion; 3ii-— S^- of lard for 
ointment. Deep hard-edged ulcers, Coniocl. 3, 3h.; 
locally, Comocl^ ^ '^ii. — Jvi.; or 3ii- — §i of lard 
for ointment. ' ' Constitutional ' ' and syphilitic 
ulcers — (i) Kali i. gr. iii. — 30, 4h.; locally, ointment 
of acid Nitrate of Mercury, dilute; {Ung. Hydrarg. 
nit. B. P. Jiv., Ung. cetacei gi). (2) Ac. nit. 6, 
4h ; locally, Ac. nit ix, 3ii- — S^i^i- ^or a lotion. 
Sloughing or phagedaenic ulcers, as from bed-sores 
— (i) Crot. h. 3, 2h.; to be kept constantly clean; 
if necessary, in a continual water-bath in which 



236 U M B — U R I 

Condy's fluid (5i. — Oj.) bas been mixed, the water 
being kept flowing through the bath in a constant 
stream. (2) Ac. nit. 6, 2h. ; locally, Ac. nit, ix, 3ii- — 
5vi. foralotion (with frequent cleansing). (3) Ars. 
3, 2h.; locally, Ars. 3. ^\\. — gvi. for a lotion. When 
there is much prostration, with coldness and vital 
depression, Carb. v. 6, 2h. ; locally, Ac. nit, ix, ^\\. — 
gvi. [As an alternative for the Hydrastis or Calen- 
dula ointment, the Resin ointment of the B.P is often 
of service; also Boracic acid ointment.] 

Umbilical Hernia. See Hernia. 

Uraemia. — [Put the patient in a hot pack, or give a 
vapour-bath] For the coma give — (i) Ac. carbol. 
2, yi\\. ; (2) if there is no improvement within a few 
hours, Op. 3x, ]i\i. When there are convulsions, 
Cupr. ac. 3x, X^- 

Urethra. — Inflammation. See Gleet, Gonorrhoea. 

CARBUNCI.E. See under Tumours. 

Spasmodic Stricture — Pure spasm, Camph. ix, lom. 
Fever as well as spasm. Aeon. 3, lom. [These are 
well supplemented by a hot bath ] In more chronic 
cases Nux v, 3, ih. See also Strangury. 

Organic Stricture. — Commencing Clem. <^, 2h. 
Established — (i) Sit. 3, gr. iii. 8h.; (2) Phos 3, 4h. 
When acute symptoms supervene, medicines recom- 
mended for Strangury must be given, and the 
necessity of catheterism will always be borne in 
mind. 

Urine- — Abnormai, Conditions of. — Strong-smelling, 
like horses', Ac. benz. 3X, 4h. Smelling like violets, 
Tereb 3, 4h. Fishy odour, Urati. nit.^ 3X, gr. ii. — 



URI 237 

30, 8h. Pungent smell, Borax 6, 8h. Mucus; white 
sediment; incontinence in children, Cma 3, Sh, 
White deposit of oxalates, pain in the back, Ac. oxal. 
6, 8h. Phosphatic, Ac. phos. ix, 4h. Red deposit, 
with constipation, Lye. 3, gr. ii. — 6, 4h. Red deposit, 
lithic acid dyspepsia, Sep. 6, 4h. Brown or white de- 
posit, pain in groins, Berb. 6, 4h. Thick white de- 
posit, ill-smelling, Graph. 6, 4h White urine (with 
worms), Ci7ia 3, 4h. Bloody, ^^<? Haematuria. Pale 
and excessive in quantity, Scill. i, 4h. Sugar, see 
Diabetes. 

Micturition, Abnormai.. — Burning or scalding — (i) 
Canth. 3, 2h.; (2) Copaiba ^^^ i\i.\ (3) Apis 3X, 2h. 
Difficult, see Strangury. 

Micturition, Fre:quent. — At night in old people, 
Caust. 3x, 8h. Frequent at night; urging to urinate, 
but it is a long time before he is able. Kali c. 6, 8h. 
Urging after drinking water, Carlsbad 6, 8h. After 
drinking coffee, Ign. 3, 8h. Frequent urging with 
constipation, Nux v. 3, 2h. Violent urging with 
dragging pains, Lil. t. 30, once a day. 

Suppression and Retention of Urine — From 
cold, Camph. ix, lom. If it does not yield within 
one or two hours, Tereb. 3, X^- If there is fever, 
anxiety, restlessness, fear, Aco. 3, X^. Spasmodic 
Nux V. 3, %\i. Hysterical, Ign. 3, ^h. Paralytic', 
Op. 3, X^- ^^^ <^l^o Bladder, Kidneys, Infi^am- 
MATioN OF, strangury, Urethra, Stricture of. 

Incontinence of. — Simple nocturnal, in profound 
sleep, Bell. 3, 4h. In first sleep, Sep. 6, 8h. When 
the urine has a very strong odour, Ac, benz. 3X, 4h. 
From irritation from worms, Cina 3, 4h. In children 
when difficult to awaken, Kreas 3, 8h. From too pro- 
found sleep, Kali brom. gr. ii. at bed-time. DribbHng 



238 U R T — U T E 

whilst sit ling and walking; on coughing; on emit- 
ting flatus; in bed at night, Puis. 3, 4h. Constant 
dribbling, Verhasc. t. 3, 4h. Incontinence during the 
day only, or chiefly, Ferr. phos. 3, gr. ii. 6h. Invol- 
untary passage of water during coughing, laughing, 
sneezing, &c. (i) Caust, 6, 4h.; (2) Ferr. met, 
6, or Ferr, mur. 3X, 4h. ; (3) Puis. 3X, 4h. ; (4) Caps. 
3. 4I1. 

Urticaria. See Nettle-rash. 

ITterus. — bearing Down. — Frequent pressure and 

dragging from groin downwards, as if everything 
were being pressed out, with pressure on rectum and 
uterus, leaving soreness as after labour; leucorrhoea. 
Til. 6, 8h. Bearing down as if contents of pelvis 
would be pressed out; active congestion; offensive 
discharges. Bell. 3, 8h. Bearing down with heavy 
weight and pressure, as if whole contents of pelvis 
would pass through vagina; relieved by pressure of 
hand ; dragging from navel; bladder affected, great 
nervous irritability, Lit. tig. 30, twice a day. Bear- 
ing dowm, must cross limbs to prevent protrusion of 
parts; oppressed breathing, Sep. 6, 8h. Bearing down, 
prolapse, Fraxin. Am. 4>, gtt. i. — v. 8h. 

Bi^EEDiNG FROM. — Flow usually bright; intermittent; 
pain from sacrum to pubes, Sabin. 3, 2h. Dark flow, 
passive, painless, Ham. 3, 2h. With forcing pains, 
flow dark, clotted, Cham. 6, 2h Remaining long 
after cessation of menses, Vine. m. 3, 2h Intracta- 
ble cases, Thlaspi bursa pastoris ix, 2h. See also 
Menstruation: Kxckssivk. 

Cancer. 6><? Cancer. 

Congestive States and Dispi^acements — Active 
congestion, with tendency to florid haemorrhage, ac- 



U T E 239 

companied by irritation of bladder and bowels, Sabin. 
3, 2h. Active congestion with down-pressing as if 
the contents of the pelvis would be forced out; offen- 
sive discharges; congestion and tenderness of the 
cervix, Bell. 3, 2h. Active congestion or inflamma- 
tion with fever, full, hard, bounding pulse, Verat. v. 
3x, 4h. Active congestion or inflammation with se- 
vere, labour-like pains in the region of the womb, 
extending to the back and hips, Gels. 3, 4h. Pro- 
lapse, Fraxm Atn. 4>, gtt. i. — v. 8h. Active conges- 
tion, with great nervous irritability and local pain 
and sensitiveness; prolapse or anteversion; bladder 
affected, Lil. t. 30, 4h. Prolapse, pelvic distress; 
irritability; fever; menses scanty, Sep. 6, 4h. Pro- 
lapse, pelvic distress, menses profuse, Murex p. 6, 
4h. Chronic congestion with menses too early and 
too profuse, Calc. c. 6, 4h. Atonic bodily condition, 
menorrhagia, leucorrhoea, sterility, Heloniasd. 6, 6h. 
Induration from chronic congestion, great melancholy 
and depression, Aur. met. 30, 8h. Follicular inflam- 
mation — (i ) Merc. sol. 6, 8h.; (2) lod. 3X, gtt ii. 4h.; 
(3; Hydrocot. ix, gtt. ii. 4h. [The following meas- 
ures are helpful: — A sitz-bath, 65° — 75° F., for ^yi^ to 
ten minutes every night at bed-time, the body and 
limbs being kept warm. Cold-water douche or in- 
jection, and when there is irritability, Calendula $ 
should be added in the proportion of two teaspoon- 
fuls to the pint. A pledget of lint soaked in glycer- 
ole of Hydrastis (5i. — •S^s- of glycerine) to be in- 
serted at night and removed in the morning. Pes- 
saries may have to be resorted to in some cases of 
displacement. The safest rule is not to apply a pes- 
sary unless the displacement causes actual distress, 
and not then if the distress can be removed, as is 
usually the case, by medicines. Hodge's pessary, 



240 U V U — V A G 

with the latest improvements upon it, and the ring 
pessary are the most useful.] See also Leucorrhoea. 

Hydrome:tra ( Water in uterus'). — Sep. 6, 4h. 

Pain in. — Irritable uterus, pain rheumatic or neuralgic, 

restlessness, irritability, and sleeplessness. Act. r. 3X, 
2h. Hysterical uterus, cramps, extending into the 
thighs and followed by leucorrhoea, Mag. mur, 6, 
2h. 

Physometra {Air in the Uterus). — (i) Brom. 6, 4h. 

(2) Bell. 3, 4I1. 

Tumours. See Fibroma. 

See also Labour, Menstruation, Parametritis, 
Pelvic Hsematocele, Perimetritis. 

TJvula. — S woollen, inflamed, or ulcerated, Merc. c. 6, 2h.; 
locally, to be touched with a brush charged with 
Merc. c. i trit. [This will often suffice to cure a 
troublesome tickling cough, depending on elongated 
uvula.] 

Vaccination. — Effects of. — In the fever, ^^(9;? 3, 2h.; 
if there is much swelling. Apis 3X, 2h. When the 
vesicles are large and angry and the part becomes 
very red. Bell. 3, ih. In the stage when pus has 
formed, Merc. sol. 6, 2h. Irritation during the heal- 
ing process, Sul. 30, 2h. 

Ile-heaeTh fo LEO wing ('* Vaccinosis "). — (i) Thuja 
30, 4h. (2) Silic. 30, 4h. {3) Vaccin. 200 once a 
week. 

Vagina.— Spasm of.— (i) Plumb. 6, 4h.; (2) Ign. r, 4h.; 

(3) Sil. 6, 4h. [Locally a pledget of lint charged 
with Hantame lis lotion (^, Ji. — gvi ) may be inserted 
at bedtime and removed in the morning. 



VAR — VER 241 

Air iN.—Bro. 3, 4I1. 

Discharge from.— 5^^ Gonorrhoea, Leucorrhoea. 

Varices. See Veins. 

Varicocele. See Veins. 

Variola. See Small-pox. 

Veins. — Infi^ammation {Phlebitis^. — Simple acute in- 
flammation, Ham. 3, ih.; locally, when possible, ap- 
ply compresses of Hamamelis lotion (^, Ji- — Oj )• 
After Hamamelis; when following childbirth, Puis, 
3, ih.; locally, Hamamelis lotion. Septic phlebitis 
from putrid absorption, Lack. 6, ih.; locally, com- 
presses of Lack. 6, lotion (3ii. — Oj.). 

Varicose Vkins (including Varicocele). — Asa preven- 
tive, when an attack is feared, Puis. 3, 8h. When 
the veins have become actually affected, Ham. 3, 3h. ; 
locally, support, and at night compresses of Hama- 
melis lotion (Ji. — Oj. ). If there is much pain in the 
veins, Puis. 3, 2h. In old-standing cases, Ac. flour. 
3, gtt. ii. 4h. After these (especially in varicocele) 
— (r) Ferr. phos. 3, gr. ii. 4h.; (2) Plumb. 6, 4h. In 
case of rupture apply a pad saturated with tincture of 
Hajuainelis over the bleeding point and fix with a 
firm bandage. 

Venereal Disease. See Chancre, Gleet, Gonorrhoea, 
Syphilis. 

Vertigo. — Simple giddiness, Gels. 3, 3h. With bilious- 
ness, tendency to pitch forward, Bry. 3, 2h On 
going upstairs; on looking up, Cal. c. 6, 8h. Dread 
of downward motion. Borax 6, 8h. When walking: 
after reading; when turning; as if from stomach; 
as if a hollow behind him, better in open air, Kali c. 
6, 8h. Vertigo a stomacho Ice so (giddiness arising 



242 V E S — V O M 

from stomach affection) , with constipation, in persons 
of spare habit, Nux. v. 3, 3h. After Nux, Sul. 3, 8h. 
Vertigo with sense of gyration; accompaning sea- 
sickness, Cocc. I. 3, 2h. Congestive vertigo; vertigo 
on turning over in bed, or on rising from lying down. 
Bell. 3, 2h. Vertigo whilst lying down. Con. 3, 2h. 
Vertigo whilst lying down; unhealthy subjects; 
constipation, Nat. vt. 6, 4h. When due to heart 
disease, the heart conditions must be treated, see 
Heart. ^Accompanying deafness and noises in the 

head, see Meniere's Disease. 
Vesicles. See Eczema, Herpes, Miliaria, Pemphigus. 
Vicarious Menstruation. See Menstruation. 
Vision. See Eyes : Sight, also Amaurosis, Amblyopia. 

Voice — lyOSS OR Weakness of. — From over exertion, 
Am. 3, 2h. From simple catarrh, Caust. 3, 2h. 
Hysterical, Ignat. ^, 2h.; locally, galvanism Loss 
of voice at menstrual periods, Gels. 3, 2h. Loss of 
voice every time the patient is exposed to heat, Ant. 
crud. 3, 3h. Paralysis of vocal muscles, Ac. oxal 
3, 4h. With general weakness, wasting, lod. 3X, 
4h. Laryngeal phthisis. See under Laryngitis : 
Chronic. 

Vomiting. — Vomiting of food or mucus, nausea, saliva- 
tion, Ipec. 3, ih. Nausea, vomiting coming on late, 
great prostration and complete muscular relaxation, 
white tongue; morning vomiting of drunkards; 
vomiting of liquids as soon as taken, A^it. t. 
6, ih. Red tongue, irritable state of stomach, 
inability to retain water, gastritis Ars. 3, 2h. 
Vomiting with flatulent dyspepsia; neuralgia over 
right eye, Ac. ca7'hol. 3, 2h. With marasmus, indi- 
gestion of food. Tod. 3x, 2h. Vomiting of milk, 



V U L — W A R 243 

^thus, c. 3, 2h. Sudden vomiting of milk in infants, 
Mejx. sol. 6, 2h. Vomiting of ingesta and lienteria, 
Fcrr. mur. 3X, 4h. Acid or bilious vomiting, Iris v, 
3, 2h. Nausea; vomiting of food, mucus, and bile; 
headache, Petrol, 3, ih. Chronic vomiting, Kreas. 3, 
4h. Hysterical vomiting, Kreas. 3, ih. Cerebral or 
reflex vomiting; sudden, profuse, not preceded by 
nausea, followed by headache, Apontorph. 3X, 2h. 
From motion, as in sea-sickness. Coco. I. 3, 2h. See 
also Dyspepsia, Pregnancy (Morning Sickness), 
Sea-sickness, &c. 

Vulva. — Pruritis of. See Irritation. 

Waking". — Weeps on being aroused, Cic. v. 3, 8h. Starts 
from anxious dream and screams out, Bry. 3, 8h, 
Wakes from nightmare uttering piercing screams, 
Cham, 6, 8h. 

Wakefulness. See under Sleep. 

Walking. — Dei.ay in. — if the child is fat, Calc. c. 6, 4h. 
If thin and puny, SiL 6, 4h. [Country air, and 
chalk soil for residence, v^ith careful dieting, should 
if possible be secured.] 

Warts. — In crops, Thuja 3, 4h ; locally, to be painted 
with Thtija 4), night and morning. After Thuja, (i) 
Ac. nit. 12, 4h. ; (2) Calc. c. 6, 4h.; (3) Nat. c. 6, 8h.; 
{4) Fer. Picric. 3, gtt. ii. 8h. Itching, pricking, or 
sticking in warts, Ac. nit. 6, 4h. Hard painful 
throbbing warts, Sul. 3, 4h. Warts on the hands, 
Kali. mur. 3, gr. ii. 8h.; locally to be moistened once 
a day with a solution of Kali mur \ (as much as 
would lie on a six-pence, in a table-spoonful of water). 
Warts on the palm, Nat. m. 6, 4b. Warts on the 
body; large hard warts, Sep. 6, 8h. 

IvOCAi^ Treatment. — The same remedy that is being 



244 W A S — W H I 

taken internally may be applied externally to the 
warts in solution once a day. Solid Lunar caustic 
is in many cases a very effectual application. Glacial 
acetic acid^ to be applied every three or four days, 
has the advantage of not discolouring the part. 
Chromic acid may be used also. 

Wasting. See Atrophy, 

Water-brash.— ( I ) Lycopod, 6, 4h.; (2) Nux v. 3, 4h.; 
(3) Bry. 3, 4h. With much pain after food and 
coldness of hands and feet, Verat. a, 3, 4h. 

Water in the Head. See Hydrocephalus. 
Weakness. See Debility. 

Weaning". — Management of the Chii.d. See under 
Diet : Infants. 

Management of the Breasts. See under Breasts, 
infi^ammation of, and Lactation. 

Wens.— (i) Baryt. c. 6, 6h.; (2) Coni. 3, 6h.; (3) Hep. s, 
6, 6h.; (4) Ac. benz, 3X, 8h. Ointment of Ac. benz. 
gr. V. to the ounce. If other things fail inject a few 
drops of Phyt. 4). 

Wetting the Bed. See under Urine. 

Whites. See Leucorrhoea. 

White Leg. See Phlegmasia Alba Dolens. 

Whitlow. — If taken early, the formation may be cut 
short by Silic. 3X, gr. ii. 2h. Heat, throbbing, 
swelling, constitutional disturbance, worse at night 
preventing sleep, must hold the finger up, Hep. 6, 
ih. (Locally the finger may be painted with 
Phos. 3x. ) When pus has formed, a deep incision 



W H O — W O O 245 

is sometimes necessary; and afterwaids, Sil. 6, 2h. ; 
locally Calendula lotion (."^iv. — Oss.). 

Whooping-COUg'h.— ^^^^^^«^^'<?«-' when whooping-cough 
breaks out in a family, all those members who have 
not had it should take Dros 6, night and morning. 
[In giving medicine for whooping-cough it is a 
good plan to give a dose after each coughing fit.] 
When the stage of catarrh has set in, with teasing 
cough, A CO. 3, 2h. Spasmodic fits of coughing, 
Ipec. 3, 2h. Spells of hacking cough, followed by 
vomiting if the mucus does not come up, worse 
after midnight, Dros. 6, a dose after each paroxysm 
of the coughing. Vomiting of thick, viscid mucus; 
frequent passage of much pale urine with tenesmus, 
Cocc. c. 3, 2h. When the child begins to cry as 
soon as it feels the cough coming on; rupture of 
blood-vessels of the eye; bleeding from the nose 
or spitting of blood, Arn. 3, 2h. Cries after cough- 
ing, Caps. 3, 4h. With pufiiness of upper eyelids, 
Kali c. 6, 2h. Where there is sublingual ulcer, Ac. 
nit. 6, 2h. Spasm very severe, convulsions threaten- 
ing, Ac. hydrocy. 3X, 2h. Spasms, cramps, or con- 
vulsions, Cupr. met. 6, ih— 2h. When there are 
symptoms of oppression of the brain between the 
convulsions. Op. 3, ih. Convulsions and oppression 
of the brain in full-blooded children, Bell. 3, ih. 
When capillary bronchitis occurs, rattling on the 
chest, prostration, perspiration. Ant. t. 6, ih Spas- 
modic cough, rattling on the chest, child cannot 
bear the least draught. Hep. 6, 2h. When there is 
pneumonia, see Pneumonia. 

Wind. See Flatulence. 

Womb. See Uterus. 

Woolsorter's Disease.— ►S'.f^ Malignant Pustule. 



246 W O R 

Worms. — Hygienic Treatment. — It often happens that 
the constitution is rendered more susceptible to the 
attacks of intestinal parasites, and more tolerant o^ 
their presence, by faulty hygienic surroundings. In 
all cases this should be attended to, and the drain- 
age especially; sewer gas has a strong tendency to 
predispose the s^'stem. The natuial history of the 
parasite should be attended to as far as it is known. 
Uncooked or undercooked fish and meat should be 
avoided to guard against tape-w^orm and trichinae. 
Sweets, sugar, pastry, raw fruit, and vegetables should 
be avoided. The thread- worm is alw^ays introduced 
into the mouth in the shape of eggs; the eggs hatch 
in the small intestine, and the worms lodge in the 
caecum; they lay their eggs at the anus; and their 
w^hole life is only a fortnight. Children suffering 
from thread-worms should be prevented from putting 
their fingers into the mouth, as they are very apt to 
scratch the irritated parts in sleep. This caution 
may be necessary for older persons. 

Constitutional Treatment. — As a return to healthy 
hygienic conditions will sometime suffice to render 
a patient intolerant of intestinal parasites, and thus 
bring about their expulsion, so a return to a more 
healthy condition of body, when weakened by any 
other cause, will often produce the same effect. 
When the child is scrofulous, fat, pale, lymphatic, 
head hot and perspiring at night, the perspiration 
not being offensive, feet cold and clammy, Calc. c, 
12, 8h. Distension of abdomen, poor appetite, con- 
stipation, dark thick urine, pains in the body going 
from right to left, Lye. 12, 8h Scrofulous eruptive 
subjects, sinking sensation in epigastrium in fore- 
noon, hot head, cold feet, Sul 30, 8h. In strumous, 
feeble, precocious children, feverish, dry, hot skin, 
furred tongue, tumid abdomen, bowels confined, 



W O R 247 

appetite rapacious, nervous irritability, Spig, 3, 8h. 
Fever, canine hunger, pale urine, picking nose, ten- 
dency to convulsions, Cina 30, 8h. Indigestion with 
low feverish condition, Bapt. 3, 8h. Anaemia; pass- 
age of blood and mucus, Fer7\ mur. 3X, 3h. 

[Constitutional treatment will of itself often suffice 
to remove all the symptoms of the parasites. If it 
does not, Di7'ect Treatment may be employed, as 
described below.] 

Round Worms {Ascaris licmhricoides) . — When the 
presence of this parasite is made out, Sayit. ix, gr. 
iii. every morning, fasting; there must be no solid 
food given during this time. This may be repeated 
three to six mornings. 

Tapk-worm {TcEiiia solium). — After a twelve hours' 
fast, a draught of the liquid extract of male fern 
[^Filix tnas\ should be given. The best formula is 
Filix mas (liquid extract) gtt. xxx , syrup [not 
mucilage) 5ii-j distilled water 5i- Two hours after 
this an ounce of castor oil should be taken. If this 
does not succeed in completely killing the worm, 
give Filix mas ^ gtt. v. 8h. persistenth-, for two or 
three months; or a strong infusion of Kousso taken 
in the morning, fasting, and followed in an hour by 
an ounce of castor-oil; or Pumpkin seeds (about 2 oz.) 
scalded and decorticated are crushed and made into 
a pottage with milk or cream and eaten after a 24- 
hours' fast; as little drink as possible, also, being 
taken. The castor-oil purge may follow. 

Thread-w^orms {Oxyurides, commonly but errone- 
ously called Ascarides). — [Constitutional hygienic 
treatment, though applicable to all worm patients, is 
most applicable to sufferers from thread-worms.] 
All essential oils are poisonous to thread-worms. 



248 W O U — Y A W 

To give temporary relief, warm injections containing 
a few drops of oil of turpentine (five to the ounce of 
water) wil . destroy and bring away all that ma^ be 
in the rectum. Internally, Cina 3, 4h. Where 
there is much irritation in the rectum, Teucr. ix, 
gtt. iii. 8h. Fever, dry skin, capricious appetite, 
swollen abdomen, constipation, nervous irritability, 
Spigel, 3, 4h. Ivow fever, with loaded tongue, loss 
of appetite, dull condition, Bapt. 3, 4h. 

Trichina. — It is impossible to destroy these parasites 
when once they have commenced to migrate. As 
soon as it is known that infected pork has been eaten, 
if still in the stomach, an emetic should be taken; 
if it has passed into the intestines a brisk castor-oil 
purge should be administered to expel what may 
remain. When the fever is once established all that 
remains is to support the patient's strength, and 
administer such internal remedies as correspond to 
the general symptoms. In general, Baptis. 3X, ih., 
or y^rj. 3x, ih will prove suitable. 

Wounds. — Contused, Am. 3, ih. ; locally. Arnica lotion 
(4>, 5i.— giii.). See also Bruises, and Brain: Con- 
cussion OF. Cuts, Am. 3, ih. ; locally, Calend, 
lotion (<i», 3i- — S^ ) Lacerated wounds, Hyperic 3. 
ih. ; locally, Hyperic. (lotion ^, 5i- — S^- ) Punctured, 
Led. 6, ih.; locally. Ledum lotion (<J>, 3^- — S^-). 
Poisoned, Lack. 6, ih.; locally. Lack, lotion (6, ^\. — 
giii.). kS^^ a/j<? Pyaemia. 

Writers' Cramp. See Paralysis, Locai,. 

Wry-neck. See Stifif-neck. 

Yawning. — Frequent yawning without sleepiness, Aco. 
3, 2h. Frequent yawning in the evening without 
sleepiness, Am. 2, 3h. Yawning after dinner and 



YEIv — ZON 249 

supper, Lye. 6, 2h. Yawning for hours after eating; 
immediately after waking, Nux v. 2, 311. Frequent 
yawning, after sleeping, with flow^ of tears ; excessive 
yawning, as if the jaw would be dislocated; yawning 
whilst eating; yawming interrupted by spasmodic 
rigidity of chest- walls, Ign, i — 30, 2h. Yawning so 
violent and spasmodic that it threatens to dislocate 
the jaw, Rhus t. 3, 2h. Frqeuent yawning wnth 
eructations, during the day, StiL 3, 2h. Frequent 
yawning, stretching and sleepiness, as after being 
awake all night, Chel. 3, 2h. Yawning with internal 
chilliness, Nat niiir. 6, 4h. 

Yellow Fever. — During the chill stage, Ca^nph. {Ru- 
bini's) gtt. ii. }ih.. When reaction sets in, Aco. 3, 
^h. Where gastric symptoms appear, Bry. 3, %\i. 
When the patient passes into a typhoid state, Ars. 3, 
^h. Exhaustion, haemorrhage, jaimdice, Crotal. 

Zona. See Herpes Zoster. 



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GLOSSARY 



o:p 
MEDICAI, TERMS USED IN THIS BOOK. 
( Words explained in the text are not included. ) 



ACNK. Eruption of pimples, chiefly confined to face, 

neck, and shoulders. 
Ai^BUMiNURiA. An albuminous state of the urine. 
Amaurosis. Partial or total loss of vision . 
AmknorrhcKa. Absence or stoppage of menstruation. 
Anemia. Deficiency, or watery condition of the blood. 
Anchylosis. A stiff joint. 
Aneurism. A tumour formed from dilatation of an 

artery. 
Angina Pectoris Breast-pang; neuralgia of the heart. 
Aphonia. Loss of voice. 
AscaridES Worms. 
Ascites. Dropsy of the abdomen. 
Atheroma. Degeneration of the coats of an artery. 
Atonic Wanting in tone or power. 
Atrophy. Wasting from defect of nutrition. 

Balanitis. Inflammation of the glans penis. 
Bubo. Inflammatory swelling of glands. 
Bursa. The lubricating sac surrounding tendons and 
ligaments. 

C^cum. The blind gut, or first portion of the large in. 

testine. 
Cachectic Having a depraved condition of body. 

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Cai^cuIvUS. a stony substance in kidneys, bladder, &c. 

Cai^varium. The vault of the skull. 

Cancrum Oris. Foul ulcer inside lips or cheek. 

Cardiac. Pertaining to the heart. 

CaTai^kpsy. a state of trance; suspension of sensibility 
and voluntary motion. 

Chancre. An ulcer from syphilitic poisoning. 

Chlorotic Affected with chlorosis, or green sickness. 

Chorea. St Vitus' Dance. 

Choroiditis. Inflammation of the choroid membrane of 
the eye. 

Cirrhosis A tuberculated state of organs, especially 
liver and kidneys; usually due to spirit-drinking 

Ci*A\njs. A severe kind of pain in the head, in a localised 
spot, as if a key or nail were being driven in. 

Coccyx. The lower extremity of the spine. 

Commissure. A point of union. 

CoNDYi^OMATA. Small, wart-like excrescences. 

CORYZA Thin mucous discharge from the nose and 
eyes. 

CoxALAGiA. Pain in the hip-joint. 

Cyanosis. The ' ' blue disease, ' ' from defective circula- 
tion 

Dengue. A malarial fever (sharp pains down the thighs 
and legs, with general soreness of the flesh and 
bones). 

Diabetes. Immoderate flow of urine containing sugar. 

Diathesis. A particular tendency to disease. 

Diphtheria. Inflammation of the throat, with forma- 
tion of false membranes. 

Duodenum The first portion of the small intestine. 

DyspncEa. Difficult breathing. 

Ecthyma. An eruption of pustules on a hard, inflamed 
base. 



252 GLOSSARY. 

Eczema. An eruption of small vesicles on the skin 
without fever. 

Enchondroma. a cartilaginous tumour or growth. 

Encysted. Enclosed in a sac or bag 

Endocarditis. Inflammation of the lining membrane 
of the heart. 

Epigastrium. The region overlying the stomach, 
roughly, the space between the tip of the breast- 
bone and the opening between the ribs above and 
the navel below. 

Epistaxis. Bleeding from the nose. 

Epui^is. a tumour growing from the jaw. 

Erethism. The state of increased vital action and irri- 
tability attending the early stage of acute disease. 

Erotomania. Morbid sexual passion. 

ERYSIPEI.AS. Redness of the skin, with fever and in- 
flammation. 

Erythema. Simple inflammation of the skin. 

ExEDENS. Consuming. 

ExoPHTHAi<Mic. Accompanied b}^ protrusion of the 



Fauces. The passage from the mouth into the throat, 
enclosed between the two sides (or pillars) of the 
soft palate. 

Favus. a parasitic skin disease characterised by honey- 
combed scabs. 

F1STUI.A. A sinuous, burrowing, or pipe-like ulcer, hav- 
ing an external opening often leading to a larger 
cavity; slow to heal. 

GangIvION. An encysted tumour, generally on the back 

of the hand or foot. 
Gangrene. Mortification 
Gastralgia. Pain in the stomach 
Gt.aucoma Dimness or defect of vision from opacity of 

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G1.0TTIS. The superior opening of the larynx. 
Goitre. Enlargement of the gland in front of the 
throat; Derbyshire neck. 

H^MATEMESIS. Vomiting of blood. 
H.^MATOCEivE. A tumour composed of blood. 
HEMATURIA. Bloody discharge with the urine. 
HEMIPI.EGIA. Paralysis affecting one side of the body. 
Herpes. A painful eruption of vesicles on an inflamed 

base. Shingles. 
HydroceIvE. Water or other fluid in the membranes of 

the testicle or cord . 
Hydrocephai^us. Water in the head. 
Hydrothorax. Dropsy of the chest. 
HypeR-^^mia. Excess of blood in a part. 
Hyperpyrexia. Extremely high fever. 
Hypertrophy. Excessive enlargement of any organ. 
Hypogastrium. The abdominal space low down below 

navel. 

Ichthyosis. Skin becomes hard, thickened, rough, with 
tendency to scaliness — like a fish. 

Idiopathic. Occurring spontaneously without ob\T.ous 
cause. 

Impetigo. A skin disease of small irregularly circum- 
scribed pustules, no fever, not contagious. 

InGESTa. Food when taken into the body by the mouth. 

Iritis Inflammation of the iris. 

Jactitation. Constant tossing from one position to 
another. 

Labia Lips. 

Laryngitis. Inflammation of the larynx. 
Larynx. The upper part of the windpipe. 
Leucocyth^mia. A state of. the blood having an ab- 
normal proportion of white corpuscles. 
LeucorrhcEa. Whites. 



254 GLOSSARY. 

Lichen. An eruption of minute hard pimples. 
lyiENTERiA. A species of diarrhoea in which the food is 

passed undigested. 
IvOCHiA. Serous discharges after delivery. 
IvOCOMOTOR Ataxy. A paralytic disease. 
lyUMBAGO. Rheumatism of the loins. 
lyUPUS. Scrofulous ulceration of the skin or mucous 

membrane. 

Marasmus. A wasting of the flesh. 

Meningitis. Inflammation of the membranes of the 
brain or spinal cord. 

M11.IARIA. A frebrile disease attended with an eruption 
of small red pimples. 

M01.1.1TIES OssiUM. A disease in which the bones be- 
come flexible. 

M01.1.USCUM CONTAGIOSUM. A contagious skin disease 
consisting of suppurating wart- like nodules. 

M01.1.USCUM FiBROSUM. A non-contagious skin disease 
consisting of hard wart-like nodules. 

MORPHCEA. A disease consisting of a hard condition of 
skin, called also Scleroderma. 

Myalgia. Pain in the muscles. 

MYE1.1TIS Inflammation of spinal cord. 

Myopia. Near-sightedness. 

N.^\njs. Mother's mark. 
Nares. The nostrils. 
Nates. The buttocks. 

Necrosis. Death of a bone or part of a bone. 
Neonatorum. Belonging to the newly born. 
Nephritis. Inflammation of the kidneys. 
Neuritis. Inflammation of a nerve. 
Node or Nodus A hard swelling on a bone. 
Noma Pudendi. An ulcerous disease of the genital 
organs 

Occiput. The back part of the head. 



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CE)dkma. a swelling from effusion of serous fluid into 

the cellular substance of a part. 
CESOPHAGUS The tube leading from the pharynx to the 

orifice of the stomach; the gullet. 
OxAiyURiA. Excess of oxalate of lime in the urine. 
Oz^NA. An offensively smelling discharge of an ulcer 

inside the nostrils. 

Pancreas. A long flat glandular organ in the region of 
the stomach. 

Pancre^aTiTis. Inflammation of the pancreas. 

ParapIvKGia. Paralysis affecting one half the body, 
either upper or lower. 

PKiyViS. The lower portion of the abdominal cavity. 

Pemphigus. An eruption of vesicles from the size of a 
pea to that of a walnut. 

Pericarditis. Inflammation of the pericardium. 

Pericardium. The sac surrounding the heart. 

Perimetritis. Inflammation of the peritoneum of the 
pelvis in women. 

PERIOSTENum. The thin membrane forming the im- 
mediate covering of the bones. 

Periostitis. Inflammation of the periosteum. 

Peritoneum The membrane which lines the abdominal 
cavity and covers the abdominal organs. 

Peritonitis. Inflammation of the peritoneum. 

PERITyphIvITIs. Inflammation of the covering mem- 
brane of the caecum. 

Phagedena. A malignant, corrosive, rapidly-spreading 
ulcer. 

Pharynx The visible part of the internal throat; the 
commencement of the gullet. 

PhIvEGmasia AI.BA DoivENS. White-leg; in women after 
delivery. 

PivACENTA. The after-birth. 

P1.EURA. The membrane covering the lungs and lining 
the chest. 



256 ' GLOSSARY. 

Pi^EURiSY. Inflammation of the pleura. 

Pi^^URODYNiA. External rheumatic pain in the chest 
wall. 

Pi,iCA POi,ONiCA. A disease of the hair resulting in in- 
extricable matting together. 

Pnkumonia. Inflammation of the lung. 

PoivYPUS. A species of soft tumour. 

Pr^cordia The part of the chest-wall which lies in 
front of the heart. 

Proctitis, Inflammation of the rectum or lower bowel. 

Prophyi^acTic. Preventing against disease. 

Psoriasis. A red, rough, scaly skin disease. 

PTOSIS. A falling of, or inability to raise, the upper 
eyelid. 

Pterygium. A varicose excrescence of the conjunctiva. 

Pudenda. The external genital organs of the female. 

Purpura. A disease characterised by bleeding into the 
tissues or on free surfaces, sometimes attended with 
fever; the skin is marked with purple spots or patches. 

PURUI^ENT. Containing matter or pus. 

Pyemia. A state of blood-poisoning, from absorption 
into the blood of matter from a putrid wound. 

PyEIvITis Inflammation of the pelvis or cavity of the 
kidney. 

Pyi^orus. The inferior aperture of the stomach, where 
it opens into the small bowel. 

Quinsy. Inflammation of the tonsils. 

RANUiyA. Tumour under the tongue, containing saliva. 
Retinitis. Inflammation of the retina, the organ of 

vision at the back of the eye. 
Rickets. A disease chiefly of children, the leading 

symptom of which is imperfect development of the 

bones . 
RUPIA. An eruptive disease with broad flat vesicles, sue- 



GLOSSARY. 257 

ceeded by ill-conditioned discharge, and ending in 
raised crusts. 

Sacrum. The lower part of the spinal column between 

the two haunch bones. 
Satyriasis. Incontrollable sexual passion in men. 
Sciatica. Rheumatism or neuralgia of the sciatic nerve 

running down the leg. 
SCI.HROSIS. The hardening of any part or structure. 
ScROFuivA A chronic disease, chiefly manifested in dis- 
ease of the glands and ulcerations; King's Bvil. 
Skborrhcea. Too copious flow from the sebaceous or 

oily glands of the skin. 
Skptic. Pertaining to putrefaction. 
SequkIv^. Evil consequences following diseases. 
Sinus. A passage along which matter burrows. Also a 

particular kind of vein. 
Sphincter. A round muscle constricting an orifice. 
Spina Bifida. A defective formation of the bones of 

the spine, resulting in a fluid swelling on the back of 

new-born children. 
Sternum. The breast-bone. 
Sthenic. Robust. A sthenic disease is one marked by 

violent symptoms. 
Strangury. A painful difiiculty in passing water. 
Strumous. Scrofulous 
SuBEiNGLfAE. Under the tongue. 
Synovitis Inflammation of the lubricating membrane 

of joints. 

Tabes Mesenteric a. Consumption of the bowels. 

Tetanus. Lockjaw. 

Trachea. The windpipe. 

Traumatic. Pertaining to, or resulting from, a wound. 

Tympanites. Distension of the body with gas 

Uremia. Poisoning of the blood with products of the 
urine from inaction of the kidneys. 



258 GLOSSARY. 

UYUI.A. The small fleshy body depending from the soft 
palate at the back of the mouth. 

VASCUI.AR. Containing blood-vessels. 
Vesication. Formation of blisters. 
Viscid. Of a ropy adhesive consistence. 

Water Brash. Ernctations of insipid fluid. 

Zygomatic. Pertaining to the zygoma or cheek-bone. 



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